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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

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.

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 write with teenagers in mind.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

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.