Gayle Forman

I’ve just read and loved YA novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman.  Simple and clear, sad and compelling.  Just the sort of novel I enjoy reading.  I’m in a writing phase where I’m reading everything I can, getting ideas and inspiration from books around me.  I finished Sarah Dessen’s Just Listen the other day and am starting Alice Hoffman’s The Story Sisters now.  Books are the galleries of the mind – and for a writer thinking about what to work on next they are like visiting rooms full of paintings.

Gayle Forman says: Such is the wonderous magic of writing.  There’s a wall.  And then, suddenly, there’s a door.

I like that.