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Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Book , Young , Reason , Stay


I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Growing Up , Nothing , Way , Focused


As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge myself. I read difficult books like James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' but I didn't really understand it, and no one was going to call me on it because I was 16.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Me , Myself , Understand , Challenge


It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Me , College , Way , Ego


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 of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  You , People , School , High School


Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Remember , School , Real , Introduction


I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Look , Want , Back , Bar


'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Me , Crazy , Reality , Haters


If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  You , Family , Best , Together


I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'

Author: Jesse Andrews - American Novelist
  Me , Think , Girl , Haters


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