On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen. Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin More Quotes From Gabrielle Zevin What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending. Gabrielle Zevin reading character book And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore. Gabrielle Zevin girl sea dream Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved. Gabrielle Zevin falling-in-love differences men The only love she inspires is the canine kind. Gabrielle Zevin canine kind inspire 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. Gabrielle Zevin smart museums believe Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. Gabrielle Zevin reading book thinking I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. Gabrielle Zevin just like believe book 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 nothing doing effort people I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key. Gabrielle Zevin feel thought remember world For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.' Gabrielle Zevin web favorite long book 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 think me you people 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. Gabrielle Zevin you sometimes love book I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other. Gabrielle Zevin myself race mother father I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing. Gabrielle Zevin best you creative writing Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note. Gabrielle Zevin you business time thank-you In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then. Gabrielle Zevin nobody still website way I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works. Gabrielle Zevin great think work way 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. Gabrielle Zevin name become like done 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 friend never work remember 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 music wonder writing time
