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

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

I write with teenagers in mind.

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.

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.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.