“I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.” — Jesse Andrews 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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
My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that… — Jesse Andrews 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
“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 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
“The sentence should be: “I was pleasantly surprised when the first day of senior year did not make me want to freak… — Jesse Andrews 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 Copy Share Image
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I… — Jesse Andrews Day 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
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
“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
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
As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge… — Jesse Andrews Art 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 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
“But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die.” — Jesse Andrews Friendship Copy Share Image
“We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways. — Jesse Andrews 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific to girls. Also, I don’t… — Jesse Andrews 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
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
