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Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

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

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.

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 am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

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 was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.