Adolescent Fiction Quotes

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.

I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with sections dedicated to teen lit, nor was my generation raised reading books written specifically for us. Because of that, today we still think of books for teens as children's books and so when you write a book that includes sensitive topics, it just seems even more controversial. What's troubling to me about that is these are issues adults know that teens deal with. Not writing about them makes them something we don't, or can't talk about.