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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Depression Exhaustion Gain Headaches Insomnia Loss Many Physical Symptoms Weight Weight Loss

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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Back Bummer Catharsis Emotionally Experiences Feel God Goes Greeks Like Make Movies Moving New Nothing Nothing New Oh Oh My God Sad Us

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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: About After Believes Contributor Control Does Ever Farm Folded Graduation Great Great Stories Gun Gun Control Had Issues Justice Loved Migrant Nobody Sassy Serious Seventeen Social Social Justice Staff Stories Teens Three Two Up Wanted Which Work Workers Wound Wrote Years

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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Ambition Becoming Delusion Early Grow Grow Up Narcissism Really Shows Sun Up Wanted Which Writer Young

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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Anything Cry Get Go Helps More More Than Anything Music Out Put Run Running Stressed Than Then Will

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I didn't even start college until I was 21.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: College Even Start Until

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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Accident Actually Am Blood Gets Good Know Me Sight Street Upset Very

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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Am College Direction England Exchange Feel Finished Going High High School Instead Just Just Kind Kind Life Like Made Me More Over Road School Shifted Student Think Three Traveling Who Year Years I Think I Am

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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Being Belong Every Family Feels Human Human Being Like Martian School Sense Something Somewhere Teenager Think Whether I Think

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We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

~Gayle Forman

Topics: Actually After Books Different Different Person Different Way Emotionally Experience Feel Finish Give Good Lets Life Like Little Makes Movies Moving Own Person Really See Slightly Us Way Where World You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 5th, 1970

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