Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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• You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people…
• There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
• I don't believe in writer's block.
• We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
• The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true…
• A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
• "I accept your condemnation," I said.
• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old,…
• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young -…
• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and…
• You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
• The words you can't find, you borrow.
• I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
• A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed…
• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly…
• The only love she inspires is the canine kind.
• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the…
• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. .…
• The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

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