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I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. -- Ira Sachs
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. -- Candace Bushnell
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. -- Caitlin Flanagan
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. -- Elizabeth Olsen
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. -- Simone Elkeles
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. -- Rodman Philbrick
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. -- Jami Attenberg
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written. -- Michelle Gagnon
Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale. -- Marie Rutkoski
I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience. -- Paul Di Filippo
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.' -- Jennifer Armentrout
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. -- John Green
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating. -- Patrick Ness
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad. -- Rick Yancey
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books. -- Cynthia Voigt
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. -- Katherine Paterson

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