Jesse Andrews

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”

“Even after somebody dies, you can still keep learning about them.”

“I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.”

“'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality...”

“I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.”

“James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.”

“There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. T...”