Jay Asher Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

  Jay Asher

  Book, People, Way

• I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

  Jay Asher

  Coffee, Book, Oxen

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.91, Penguin

• Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Feelings, Censorship

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

  Jay Asher

  Book, People, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but frustrating and upsetting. I hear from readers that my work encouraged them to ask for help or reach out to someone about the situation they're in. When you hear stories like that on a daily basis and then hear adults call for your work to be banned, it's proof of why the stigma around these issues is so dangerous.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Upset, Honor

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Writing, People

• Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Trying, May

• The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with sections dedicated to teen lit, nor was my generation raised reading books written specifically for us. Because of that, today we still think of books for teens as children's books and so when you write a book that includes sensitive topics, it just seems even more controversial. What's troubling to me about that is these are issues adults know that teens deal with. Not writing about them makes them something we don't, or can't talk about.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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