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
fighting want ifs
It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
if-i-stay ifs
If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.
purpose persons ifs
Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.
keys ifs
Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.
forgiven understood ifs
And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.
selfish done ifs
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
letting-you-go ifs
I'll let you go. If you stay.
play said ifs
She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
ifs
What would you do if you had to choose?
matter easy ifs
And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
direction exchange finished high instead life shifted student three traveling year
I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
adam cannot invested love people readers
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
books grew kids newspapers particular stories wanting wrote
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
miracle drug
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.