284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.

Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

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.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

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.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.