Age Categorization Quotes

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

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.

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

I don't think about 'age groups.'