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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

— Aidan Chambers

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

— Margaret Mahy

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

— Chris Crutcher

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

— Sarah Dessen

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

— Lorde

I write with teenagers in mind.

— Bernard Beckett

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

— Ursula Dubosarsky

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

— Mary E. Pearson

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

— Terry McMillan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

— Sarah Mlynowski