David Levithan
David Levithan
David Levithanis an American young-adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth7 September 1972
CityShorts Hill, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
sleep night matter
no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.
book together might
... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?
art giving role-models
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.
dust ends asks
We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
hurt fall ready
So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.
book important liberty
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?
anger feelings left-alone
Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.
perfect different feels
The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.
book writing giving
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.
girl teenage years
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
play differences my-best-friend
One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.
mind stories use
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
sex realizing i-realized
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.
relationship missing said
There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.