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

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

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

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.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

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.

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