Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizziniwas an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults including It's Kind of a Funny Story, which NPR named #56 of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" of all time and which is the basis of the film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth4 April 1981
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
examine fancy flights novel stopping time
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.
adulthood contains excite highs lows time
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.
get-better i-can can-do
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
lazy ambitious knows
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
depression ice people
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.
smart problem enough
I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
important-relationships important persons
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
bits
Every tounge bit had another word to say.
adults stuff
The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
mouths want intention
I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
mom morning eye
No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
epiphany closest
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
anchors made
That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
thinking chemistry cases
I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.