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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

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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

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I don't believe in writer's block.

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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

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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

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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

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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

~Gabrielle Zevin

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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

~Gabrielle Zevin

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 24th, 1977

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