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 Read Quote
Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we’d never been born. Gayle Forman Read Quote
I can’t pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager. Gayle Forman Read Quote
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I’ve recently been asking him for classical music. Gayle Forman Read Quote
I don’t have a lot of men in my life. I’m married, but I have daughters. I’m surrounded by a lot of females in my world. Gayle Forman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, ‘Oh, my God, what a bummer.’ We like emotionally moving experiences. It’s nothing new. It’s catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks. Gayle Forman Read Quote
