Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman
Gayle Formanis an American young-adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 June 1970
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
I didn't even start college until I was 21.
I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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A good fight scene is really a good love scene.