188 Quotes by Becky Albertalli

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

There are so many kinds of normal.

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.

I lived in the D.C. area for eight years.

'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could.

One of the things that 'Love, Simon' is doing that hasn't been done before is it's a gay teen rom-com with a mainstream wide release and the backing of a studio that previous gay rom-coms have not had. I'm really excited by that.