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I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

I write with teenagers in mind.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

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

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.