Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizziniwas an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults including It's Kind of a Funny Story, which NPR named #56 of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" of all time and which is the basis of the film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth4 April 1981
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
common
Nobody had told me I was common.
simple giving office
Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
brain maps construction
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
life-is
I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".
want i-want-to-die wanting-to-die
I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
school people able
I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
book adults lessons
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
sex moving locks
How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
teeth normal bed
Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
made persons concepts
Time is a person-made concept.
thinking enemy knows
Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".
confused thinking numbers
That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
hurt feelings found
I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
people lucky
But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.