Quotes from Adam Silvera

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

All my books center around death in some way.

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

Having a book published whenever is a huge honor.

There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.

When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.

The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.

Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.

Writing is my therapy.

Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it has nothing to do with the fact that Taylor Swift shops there, too.

I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.

I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever after,' but I don't think that's me.

It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.