Gail Carson Levine Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A library is infinity under a roof.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Library, Infinity

• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Reading, Book, Way

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

• In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Character, Needs

• Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Giving Up, Book, Reading

• that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book

• I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Book, Writing

• 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. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

• My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Father, Book, Night

• I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Book, Reading

• I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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