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
lying knows
You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
want know-it-all knows
I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
disgusting knows
simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
love-is knows i-can
I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
great-aunt knows
I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.
knows noticing
You don't know, but I'm noticing.
real want knows
I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
knows
Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
together normal knows
It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.
world ifs knows
If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.
finishing love novels people vampire wanting
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
author perfect
There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.
honestly matters poorly reflects second true whether
I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.
bouncing guarantees love written
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.