You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time – and I still hated high school. It’s just a rough, rough period in one’s life. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
If something is being written about a lot, there’s a conversation there; there’s a dialogue there. There’s probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
In a way, there’s nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
I don’t think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about, and if other people are writing about it, that doesn’t really come to bear on what you want to do. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
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 not trying to be, which is most of the time. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
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.’ Jesse Andrews Read Quote
Everyone’s got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They’re always more complex than your conception of them will allow. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that’s the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
