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

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

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.

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.