Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads. "
Becky Albertalli
Think
Up
Own
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Love Is
Life
Together
" Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish. "
Becky Albertalli
People
I Am
Jewish
" It's funny, the moments that shape you as a writer. "
Becky Albertalli
Moments
Writer
Funny
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Kids
Lot
Gender
" I am a psychologist. That's my training. "
Becky Albertalli
Psychologist
Am
I Am
" It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books. "
Becky Albertalli
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. "
Becky Albertalli
Like
Easy
You
" I lived in the D.C. area for eight years. "
Becky Albertalli
Eight
Years
Area
" There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out. "
Becky Albertalli
Different
Kid
Out
" The Internet and social media can really be life-saving for some kids. "
Becky Albertalli
Media
Social
Social Media
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Work
Much
Clients
" 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.' "
Becky Albertalli
Finally
Telling
Plot
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Feel
Reading
Process
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
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. "
Becky Albertalli
Thought
Loved
Know
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Friendship
Story
Love
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
Life
Growing Up
People
" There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed. "
Becky Albertalli
Universal
Experience
Stories
" 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. "
Becky Albertalli
I Am
People
Writing
" Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant. "
Becky Albertalli
Superhero
Brilliant
Charge
" There are so many kinds of normal. "
Becky Albertalli
Kinds
Many
Normal
" I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience. "
Becky Albertalli
Knew
Experience
Fat
" Fat has a range of experiences. "
Becky Albertalli
Range
Experiences
Fat