Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you, ' was all I could say in return.

We accept the love we think we deserve.