American - Novelist | September 15, 1982 -
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.
Jesse Andrews
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If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.
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I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.
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Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.
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In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.
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There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?
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'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.
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I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.
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Writing is more important than being a writer.
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Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.
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Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.
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I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.
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