David Levithan Book Quotations

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.