Gabrielle Zevin Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Needs, Answers

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.87, Algonquin Books

• I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Promise

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.154, Algonquin Books

• 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.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Twenties, Meals

• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

• 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, Book, Character

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

• It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Dad, Book, Talking

• Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: bookpage.com

• Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Sometimes, Right Time

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.92, Algonquin Books

• The words you can't find, you borrow.
  We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
  My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
  We are not quite novels.
  The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
  We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
  In the end, we are collected works.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Stories

• 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

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Vices, Twenties

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.41, Algonquin Books

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Children, Powerful, Book

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