"I realized later that Ned simply couldn't tell a story without rendering a character in three dimensions."
I could go on about Ned Vizzini, and especially how encouraging he was of his friends and how genuinely in awe he was of other writers. Everyone he'd ever worked with or known well, he praised at length as though he simply couldn't fathom how creatively that person's mind worked. Every time, I just wanted to say, "Ned, you're a better storyteller than all of them. You know that, right?"