Jesse Andrews Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Novelist Born: September 15, 1982

Writing is more important than being a writer.

Writing Important More Being

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.

Life Heart You Rest

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

Feel Teen Wish I Wish

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.

You People Yourself Honesty

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

Way Conversation Something Reason

'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.

Myself Me Power World

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

Art History Gender Physics

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?

Time Girl Better Person

Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.

Time Hard Trying More

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

Book Stay Reason Young

Top 10
Jesse Andrews
Quotes

I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.

Way Growing Up Nothing Focused

As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge myself. I read difficult books like James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' but I didn't really understand it, and no one was going to call me on it because I was 16.

Myself Me Challenge Understand

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

Me Ego Way College

You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

You People School Know

Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.

School Remember Real Introduction

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.

Look Back Want Bar

'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

Me Crazy Reality Way

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.

Family Best You Together

I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'

Me Girl Think Haters

Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

Funny Love Time Voice

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

You Will Hidden Your

I never took creative writing.

Never Creative Writing Took

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.

Music Day School College

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

Growing Up Growing Up Lot

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

Love Jazz Which I Love

My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.

Love Myself Dad Impossible

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 15, 1982

Popular Topics

Inspirational Quotes

Christmas Quotes

Positive Quotes

Funny Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Life Quotes

Friendship Quotes

Love Quotes

Popular Authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Abraham Lincoln

Henry David Thoreau

Albert Einstein

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

Ernest Hemingway
Quotes

James Baldwin
Quotes

John Updike
Quotes

Leo Rosten
Quotes

Elie Wiesel
Quotes

H. P. Lovecraft
Quotes

Richard Bach
Quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote