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Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

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

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.