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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

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.

I write with teenagers in mind.

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 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.

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

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

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

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

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.