I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics. — Jesse Andrews Art Copy Share Image
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along. — Jesse Andrews Book Copy Share Image
“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.” — Jesse Andrews Book Copy Share Image
“We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.” — Jesse Andrews Fourteen Copy Share Image
James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways. — Jesse Andrews Actually Copy Share Image
“But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die.” — Jesse Andrews Friendship Copy Share Image
You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible. — Jesse Andrews Closure Copy Share Image
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be… — Jesse Andrews Grief Copy Share Image
“Are you done eating that?" "What?" "You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some." "The hell he will." "He will." "It's so… — Jesse Andrews Eating Copy Share Image
Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's… — Jesse Andrews Books Copy Share Image
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… — Jesse Andrews Funny Copy Share Image
My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and… — Jesse Andrews Dad Copy Share Image
My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version… — Jesse Andrews Bad Copy Share Image
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… — Jesse Andrews Communication Copy Share Image
'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the… — Jesse Andrews Myself Copy Share Image
“I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you… — Jesse Andrews Humility Copy Share Image
“Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone… — Jesse Andrews Hated Copy Share Image
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… — Jesse Andrews High school Copy Share Image
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got… — Jesse Andrews Great Copy Share Image
“It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded murderous instinct of a predator,… — Jesse Andrews Death Copy Share Image
There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of… — Jesse Andrews Better Copy Share Image
'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions… — Jesse Andrews Band Copy Share Image
“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I… — Jesse Andrews Death Copy Share Image
“Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding” — Jesse Andrews Funny Copy Share Image
“I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had. — Jesse Andrews Books Copy Share Image
I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it. — Jesse Andrews About Copy Share Image
Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow. — Jesse Andrews Hidden Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started… — Jesse Andrews Books Copy Share Image
I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read… — Jesse Andrews Around Copy Share Image
“this book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every person I've… — Jesse Andrews Book Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about,… — Jesse Andrews Come Copy Share Image
My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that… — Jesse Andrews Enough Copy Share Image
