Jay Asher Quotes

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• The Golden Rule will always be good advice!
• What the hell happened to Pluto?!
• I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.
• The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that…
• It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.
• All you really have... is now.
• As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
• I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.
• I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
• Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
• Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
• Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
• The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
• You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not…
• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening…
• You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.
• No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it…
• Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt,…

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