Top 12 Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn’t the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

It’s far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn’t allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

The attitude of, ‘I will never self-publish,’ coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can’t really fault someone for saying, ‘What I’m doing right now works, so there’s no reason to change it.’

When Jennifer Lawrence says it’s ‘dumb‘ to go hungry to make other people happy, she’s saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

Movies like ‘The Interview‘ and ‘Team America: World Police‘ don’t often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren’t new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for ‘Twilight‘-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.