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
thinking important world
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
believe years special
deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
brain ruts stuck
My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
smart problem enough
I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
growing-up kids thinking
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
should-have should considering
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
people acting today
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
fine wells
I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.
giving want example
She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
book sometimes
Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.
depression ice people
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.
lazy ambitious knows
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
thinking people drunk
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.