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There's a really generous readership with YA.
Mary H.K. Choi
Generous
Ya
Readership
Really
I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.
Mike McCready
Think
Recommend
Lifestyle
Bought
Ya
Does
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
End
Roll
Anyone
In The End
Whole
I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Great
Fear
Focus
Young
Great American
Books
Backed
Sexual
More
Somewhat
Write
Adult
Category
Ya
Course
Off
American
Young Adult
Anything
Pacing
Little
Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
Patrick Ness
Love
Great
Other
Heroines
Framework
Once
Drape
Complex
Out
Plot
About
Horse
Tend
Write
Emotionally
Stuff
Ya
Boy
Go
Just
Which
Fantastic
Working
Who
Many
Things
When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
Rachael Ray
Life
Time
Me
You
Pressure
Men
My Life
See
About
Dated
Dating
No Time
Over
Make
Ya
Years
Dumped
Oh
Just
Them
Need
Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.
Rebecca Serle
Responsibility
Ya
Course
Audience
Authors
One of the things that defines YA is a really strong narrative. Adults love YA because, at the end of the day, they're good stories and page-turners. The other element is emotion. The teen years are a very emotional and intense time, and I think it's a time we that we can all relate to and remember.
Rebecca Serle
Love
Time
Good
Day
Strong
Remember
End Of The Day
Think
Teen
Other
Relate
Teen Years
Defines
One Of The Things
Good Stories
Emotion
Emotional
Adult
Ya
Because
Narrative
Years
End
Very
Intense
Stories
Really
Element
Things
I do a bit called, 'You go, girl!' where I say, 'Don't tell me 'You go, girl!' I get it. I don't need you encourage me.' And nine times out of 10 after I finish the bit, some guy in the back will yell 'You go, girl!' I get a lot of that or 'I hear ya!' I don't generally - knock on fake wood - get mean heckling.
Retta
Me
You
Will
Girl
Nine
Back
Say
Bit
Out
Tell
Some
Guy
Finish
Generally
Knock
Ya
Fake
Go
Hear
Encourage
Yell
Lot
Times
Get
Wood
Where
After
Mean
Need
Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
Robert Wagner
Time
Girl
Three
Long
Long Time
Those
Daughters
He
Rob
Know
Him
Ya
Known
Because
Been
I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.
Robin McKinley
Made
Way
Never
Written
Feel
Particularly
Genre
Ya
Children
Want
Stories
Creators
Differentiate
Differentiation
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
Russell Smith
Book
Teenagers
Way
About
Only
Oblique
Written
Ya
Makes
Very
Any
The Only Thing
Conventional
Form
Experimental
Place
Thing
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
Russell Smith
Age
Looking
Group
Say
Consistently
Easy
Entirely
Seems
More
Adult
New
Category
Know
Read
Ya
Readers
New One
Than
Age Group
Theme
Fun
Actually
I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them because we sort of see ourselves in them.
Sabaa Tahir
Heart
Age
Whatever
Think
Ourselves
See
Ya
Sort
Because
Lot
Stories
Them
Connect
Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.
Sabaa Tahir
Truth
Age
Honesty
Writing
Important
Think
Above
Ya
Any
Anyone
Appeals
Honest
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
Sara Zarr
Time
Thought
Every
Every Time
Characters
Per
Featured
Write
Ya
Decide
Story
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
Love
Good
Me
Writing
School
Try
Other
Else
High
Collection
Would
Some
High School
About
Something
Something Else
Point
Since
Like
Ya
Been
Lot
Fit
Than
Short
Eighteen
Stories
Happened
Short Stories
Really
I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.
Sarah Mlynowski
Love
Anger
Emotions
Differences
Teen
Teens
TV
Angst
Between
Talk
Also
Read
Ya
Cultural
Lot
Same
Whenever
Novels
Now
Watch
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
Class
Science
Training
College
Single
Books
Some
Similarities
Writer
Adult
Ya
Science Fiction
However
Fiction
Formal
Which
English
Even
I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.
Stephen Marley
Music
World
Musician
Know
Ya
Am
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.
Steve Sheinkin
Best
Great
Events
Job
Country
Interview
Meet
Interviews
Some
About
Online
Over
Ya
Comics
Lot
Get
Authors
Short
Children
Them
Might
Turn
Figured
Fun
Things
A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Family
Problems
About
Ya
Lot
Novels
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.
Terry Pratchett
Money
Field
Books
Unavoidable
Small
Write
Adult
Written
Advances
Ya
Because
Got
Any
Reason
Compared
Now
Consequence
The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.
Tomi Adeyemi
Care
Community
Pretty
Generally
Ya
Friendly
Author
Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.
Tomi Lahren
Other
Sexist
Know
Calling
Ya
Democrats
Fun
Each
Start
I look up to Jimmy Fallon. He hosts talk shows as a fan himself, and that's how I do it. When the celebrities come in, I'm excited that they're there. It's not just like a formal, 'Hey, how are ya?' It's like, 'Dude, what the hell! So happy to see you!' That's what Jimmy Fallon does every time.
Vinny Guadagnino
Time
You
Happy
Hell
Every
Every Time
Jimmy
Hey
See
He
Excited
Hosts
Come
Like
Look
Talk
Talk Shows
Himself
Ya
Does
How
Dude
Up
Celebrities
Just
Fan
Formal
Shows
People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'
Wanda Sykes
Love
Me
Hate
People
Word
Fans
Big
Enjoy
Hey
Respectful
Run
Some
Like
React
Ya
Because
How
Idol
Doing
Friend
Very
Big Movie
Movie
Movie Star
Pop
Use
Who
Star
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