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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

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Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

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Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

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I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

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It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

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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 think about what that might mean.

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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.

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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

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I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

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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 kind of thing all the time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 4th, 1968

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