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I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to... →
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one... →
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the... →
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how... →