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I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I write with teenagers in mind.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.