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David Levithan is an American young adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.

At 19, Levithan received an internship at Scholastic Corporation where he began working on The Baby-sitters Club series. Levithan still works for Scholastic as an editorial director. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a young-adult imprint of Scholastic Press focusing on new voices and new authors. PUSH publishes edgier material for young adults and is where Patricia McCormick got her start with 2002's Cut.

In an interview with Barnes & Noble, Levithan claimed that he learned how to write books that were both funny and touching from Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He continues to work as both a writer and editor saying, "I love editing just as much, if not more than writing". Levithan's first collaboration with Rachel Cohn, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, was published in 2006 and adapted for the big screen in 2008. His novel Love is the Higher Law was published in August 2009 by Knopf Books for Young Readers.

Levithan has been a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey.

In 2016, Levithan won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is the Higher Law, How They Met and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

✵ 7. September 1972  •  Other names דיוויד לויתן
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David Levithan Quotes

“Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.”

David Levithan

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I hope suffering don't exist.”

David Levithan

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.”

David Levithan

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

David Levithan book Are We There Yet?

Source: Are We There Yet?

“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I only have eyes for you.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you.
you don't recognize the shape, offer other names.
you say my time will come, and I hope.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“It’s okay,” I tell her.
“It is okay to be happy”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“iv.

who was it
who invented
size zero?

who was it
who promised
that if you got
to a certain point
you would no
longer
be?”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.”

David Levithan

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Love me less, but love me for a long time”

David Levithan

“It’s like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait…”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

David Levithan

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed… You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.”

David Levithan

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“You are not alone.”

David Levithan

Two Boys Kissing

“No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Every Day

“Answerless questions can destroy. Move on.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Every Day
Variant: Answerless questions can destroy you.

“At this particular moment, there’s just no question about it.”

David Levithan

How They Met, and Other Stories