Jay Asher Quotes

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

Jay Asher

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Heart

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Honor

• I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Think
  • Try
  • Supernatural

• I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Admire

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • God
  • May
  • War

• There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • War
  • Ugly
  • Civil War

• Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Day
  • Always
  • Makeup

• Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pressure
  • Been
  • Advertising

• Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Path

• What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Moments
  • Struggle
  • Competition

• The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Thankful

• I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks
  • Void

• There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Reading

• Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them.

  

  Carmelo Anthony

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • Ignorance
  • Opinions

• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  

  George W. Bush
  • Listening
  • Leadership
  • Duty

• Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

  

  Jay Asher