Gayle Forman Quotes

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

Gayle Forman

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• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

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• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

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• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

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• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

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• With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

  

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• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

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• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

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• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

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• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

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• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

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• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

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• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

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• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

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• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

  

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• We got rid of parallel ports, the serial bus, floppy drives, physical keyboards on phones - do you miss the physical keyboards on your phone?

  

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• In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.

  

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• Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

  

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• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention