David Levithan Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

  David Levithan

  Book, Waiting, Lines

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

  David Levithan

  Kindness, Book, Start The Day

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.218, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

  David Levithan

  Book, Important, Liberty

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

  David Levithan

  Book, Together, Would Be

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

• It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

  David Levithan

  Book, Together, Pages

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.23, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Wall, Book, Sea

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Book, Good Book, Should

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

  David Levithan

  Sorry, Book, Writing

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.36, Egmont UK

• I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

  David Levithan

  Song, Book, Cities

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK

• I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

  David Levithan

  Book, Dying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• ... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

  David Levithan

  Book, Together, Might

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

  David Levithan

  Book, Writing, Giving

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