David Levithan Quotes

I had never seen an ocean before I came to Mumbai, something that now we take for granted. But the first time I stood in front of the ocean, it affected me for a week. I had never seen something as enormous. It consumed me completely.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.

'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.

The movie had a much bigger impact on me than I ever thought that it did.

We always have that one special moment that could be anything that changes our lives forever.

There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.

I just want a look so classic that I don't get made fun of for it later!

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.