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All Quotes by author - Becky Albertalli
" As a psychologist, I'm painstakingly careful not to borrow my clients' stories for my fiction - but in a general sense, I'm very much inspired by all the teenagers I've been lucky enough to know and work with. "
Work
Much
Clients
" Don't be afraid of growing up and changing and getting used to these newer versions of yourself and becoming more comfortable sharing those versions of yourself with the people in your life, even people who knew you when you were younger. "
Life
Growing Up
People
" Fat has a range of experiences. "
Range
Experiences
Fat
" From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.' "
Finally
Telling
Plot
" Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant. "
Superhero
Brilliant
Charge
" I actually don't know much about Jaclyn Moriarty's process or where her stories come from or who inspired her characters. I just know that reading her books feels like sitting with friends. Her characters feel alive. "
Feel
Reading
Process
" I am a psychologist. That's my training. "
Psychologist
Am
I Am
" I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much from other people. "
I Am
People
Writing
" I lived in the D.C. area for eight years. "
Eight
Years
Area
" I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads. "
Think
Up
Own
" It's funny, the moments that shape you as a writer. "
Moments
Writer
Funny
" It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books. "
Important
Diversity
Books
" It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside. "
Like
Easy
You
" I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience. "
Knew
Experience
Fat
" I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met. "
Kids
Lot
Gender
" Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them. "
Love Is
Life
Together
" Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish. "
People
I Am
Jewish
" My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos. "
Friendship
Story
Love
" One of the things that 'Love, Simon' is doing that hasn't been done before is it's a gay teen rom-com with a mainstream wide release and the backing of a studio that previous gay rom-coms have not had. I'm really excited by that. "
Excited
Love
Teen
" 'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could. "
Thought
Loved
Know
" The Internet and social media can really be life-saving for some kids. "
Media
Social
Social Media
" There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out. "
Different
Kid
Out
" There are so many kinds of normal. "
Kinds
Many
Normal
" There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed. "
Universal
Experience
Stories
" You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But 'Love, Simon' is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti. "
Making Money
Love
Passion
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