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 brain want
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
mouths want intention
I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
want able alive
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
want
I just want to not be me.
animal people want
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear,
want above-and-beyond conjunctions
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
want i-want-to-die wanting-to-die
I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
giving want example
She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
mom dog jealous
I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
thinking chemistry cases
I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
books grew reading
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.
adult freedom similarly targeted tremendous
You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.
easiest
I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.
amazing people quickly
Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'