Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levineis an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 September 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.
fairy fascinated tales
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
hardest watch
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
painter
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
mind tales
I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
excited
I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
wrote
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
child kids learn stories time
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
kids
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
drew happier hardest
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
anthology charter elementary grew high member poems poetry published scrabble york
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
cinderella decided realized ten
I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
closer grew vivid
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
bunch direct earlier enjoy experience helping job life might people somewhere thinking today work
Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.