I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia Gayle Forman More Quotes by Gayle Forman More Quotes From Gayle Forman A good fight scene is really a good love scene. Gayle Forman fight good scene love I didn't even start college until I was 21. Gayle Forman until even start college I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset. Gayle Forman street good me upset I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college. Gayle Forman i-am me life school I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere. Gayle Forman human-being think family school We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. Gayle Forman good you experience life I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines. Gayle Forman down someone path book So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer. Gayle Forman rise me motherhood long When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer. Gayle Forman grow-up grow ambition sun As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty. Gayle Forman like me loyalty hate Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous. Gayle Forman down you dangerous hope Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story. Gayle Forman skill story know long People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to. Gayle Forman attention baby book people My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved. Gayle Forman timing luck business people John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time? Gayle Forman you green stars time As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that. Gayle Forman pretty feel things think I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too. Gayle Forman see me enjoy time In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it. Gayle Forman depression time sympathy people Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born. Gayle Forman us never born wish If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability. Gayle Forman some sadness depression opportunity
