When you’re being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I’m so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn’t be there if their school didn’t care. Jay Asher Read Quote
Fifty Shades’ opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that’s controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly. Jay Asher Read Quote
The main character in the book is usually someone you’re identifying with because the story is being told through this person’s mind. Jay Asher Read Quote
It’s funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book. Jay Asher Read Quote
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they’re not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on. Jay Asher Read Quote
I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they’re uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all. Jay Asher Read Quote
Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, ‘Yeah, it’s just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.’ You know you’re not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that ‘just happens.’ Jay Asher Read Quote
