Vizzini Book Quotes

#1. Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

E.F. Schumacher

#2. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Helmut Newton

#3. I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

Ned Vizzini

#4. Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

Homer

#5. A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Ned Vizzini

#6. You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.

Ned Vizzini

#7. I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

Paulo Costanzo

#8. For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Carrie Fisher

#9. Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.

Christian Cantrell

#11. The smoke drifts toward us across that vast desert of desolation with the rising of the wind.

J.M Shorney

#12. Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

Ned Vizzini

#13. Keep taking new action, new path and new adventures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Madeleine L'Engle