Audience Quote by Soman Chainani

I didn't write these books specifically for the young-adult audience. I wrote them for me. I don't know why they span the ages so…

— Stephenie Meyer

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they…

— Katherine Paterson

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing…

— John Green

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The…

— Anonymous

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I…

— Louis Sachar

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would…

— John Boyne