Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
describing people physical somebody
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.
amazingly famous huge jonathan literary
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.
diving leap-of-faith plus
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
fighting controversial-topics two
Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.
smart believe museums
I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.
stories ends novel
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
bookstores
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
love-is needs elsewhere
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
daddy people said
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
paperwork
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
dull sides stories
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
forgive-me forgiving done
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
moments that-moment ifs
Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.
deep-thought
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.