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Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Gabrielle Zevin
American
Author
Born:
Oct 24
,
1977
Book
Me
People
Time
Writing
You
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin
Book
Long
Favorite
Record
Web
Charlotte
Suspected
Actually
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 for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin
Writing
School
Thought
Playwright
Would
Would-Be
Computer
Learned
Around
How
Years
Eight
Many
Present
Received
Started
Plays
I don't believe in writer's block.
Gabrielle Zevin
Believe
Writer
Block
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
Gabrielle Zevin
Me
You
People
Somebody
Think
Characteristics
Physical
More
Like
Read
Always
Question
Lot
Informative
Ask
Much
Describing
Found
Things
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Gabrielle Zevin
Myself
Mother
Father
Other
Felt
Always
Am
Korean
Mixed
American
Race
Jew
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 didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
Gabrielle Zevin
Become
Else
Write
Writer
Jonathan
Name
Like
Because
Amazingly
Huge
Done
Famous
Literary
Anything
Anything Else
Who
Even
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
Gabrielle Zevin
Music
Time
Writing
First
Ways
Would
More
Make
Because
Pass
Affecting
Wonder
Quickly
Intend
Listen
Then
Used
Necessarily
Started
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
Gabrielle Zevin
Time
Me
Every
Every Time
Books
Saw
Grandparents
Used
Bring
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
Gabrielle Zevin
Buy
You
Book
People
Mind
Will
Book Tour
Books
Bookstores
Bit
Tell
Must
See
Strongly
Tour
Never
Like
Read
Author
Suspect
Middle
Watching
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