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While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Jennifer Armentrout
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For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.


Hallie Ephron
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Ruth Ozeki
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
Scott Westerfeld
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
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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
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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Gregory David Roberts
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.


Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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
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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
Bruce Greenwood
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
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Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.


Umera Ahmad
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.
Ron Jaworski
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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
Ian Rankin
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.


Jose Saramago
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I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.
Louis Sachar
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
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