Gabriel Thibodeau

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers."

"It’s a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they’re figuring out what matters to them […] Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they’ve had fewer of them. It’s like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented."

"It’s not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it’s false."