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

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

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 wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.