Affect Quote by Tansy Rayner Roberts

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults…

— Ellen Hopkins

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

— Deborah Reber

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of…

— Matt Haig

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

— David Crabb

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

— Jesse Andrews

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with…

— Jay Asher

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the…

— Robin Wasserman

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old…

— Olga Tokarczuk

While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological…

— Maggie O'Farrell