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
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
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
“Then, out of the blue, Aaron Winer saved the day. He took her to some movie and made out with her in… — Jesse Andrews Boyfriend and girlfriend 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
I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have… — Jesse Andrews Break Copy Share Image
My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll… — Jesse Andrews Change 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
“I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupidest smart person there is…… — Jesse Andrews Cancer Copy Share Image
I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,'… — Jesse Andrews Books 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
“If this were a video game, you could just break everything in this room and a bunch of money would come out… — Jesse Andrews Bank account Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All… — Jesse Andrews Honesty 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
“And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss was, that she… — Jesse Andrews Life 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 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
“You can sort of tell that they are doing this to show everyone that they are good enough at music to just… — Jesse Andrews Good enough Copy Share Image
Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious… — Jesse Andrews Feminism 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 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
“Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkward terms. How do you… — 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
