Gabrielle Zevin

“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.”

“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.”

“Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.”

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.”

“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”

“But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.”

“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”

“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”

“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

“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”

“My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.”

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

“The words you can't find, you borrow.”

“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.”