Gabrielle Zevin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, Grandmother, Florida

• 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

• 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.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, School, Eight

• A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Writing, Easier

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.239, Algonquin Books

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