Jay Asher Quotes

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

We can only know others by ourselves.

We see only that which we are.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.