Quotes About Non-pretentious

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.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.