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.
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
I write with teenagers in mind.
That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.
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.
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.
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
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