Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman
Gayle Formanis an American young-adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 June 1970
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
became demand far guess pay rent sounds stories threat
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
adam cannot invested love people readers
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
blow wind sometimes
Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
characters directly exactly five hours nor screen structure totally translate writers
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
becoming delusion early grow shows
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
space sometimes empty
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
life choices sometimes
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
disappointment differences pieces
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
pain one-day scared
Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.
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But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
tired missing
I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
falling-in-love one-day anything-can-happen
We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.
four might twenties
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.