I myself am mixed race – my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew – so I’ve always felt other. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life – and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children’s literature. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
I hadn’t ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on ‘Elsewhere’ that I would never write a novel. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn’t a reader yet has just not found the right book. Gabrielle Zevin Read Quote
