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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

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.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

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

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.