Jay Asher Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

  Jay Asher

  Betrayal, Feelings, Worst

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.13, Penguin

• I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.

  Jay Asher

  Stress, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Feelings, Censorship

  Source: www.pbs.org

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