Writer Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

“There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time.” “Not”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Most of our customers have rather liked The Book Thief.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't believe in writer's block.

— Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

— Gabrielle Zevin

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

— Gabrielle Zevin

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read…

— Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“he has bushy blond eyebrows and a voice that makes her think of damask. One afternoon a week or so after New…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would…

— Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“All I can say is . . . All I can say is we’ll figure it out, I swear. When I read…

— Gabrielle Zevin