Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
diving leap-of-faith plus
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
felt jew mixed
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
book answers needs
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
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.
book vices twenties
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 in books and also in life
book reading thinking
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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.
get-well water heal
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
book heart promise
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
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.
dog three puppy
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
daddy people said
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.