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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

Topics: Blogs Even Kept Nobody Publishing Similar Still Then Way Website

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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

Topics: About Aware Been Books Bookstores Ecosystem Great How Lot Published Publishing Think Very Way Work Works I Think

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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

Topics: Amazingly Anything Anything Else Because Become Done Else Even Famous Huge Jonathan Like Literary Name Who Write Writer

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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

Topics: Ask Choose Doing Effort Hobbies Hobby More Nothing People Person Read Takes Than Those Who

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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

Topics: About Adele Bell Electric Erase Fascinating Feel Florida Grandmother Had Key Keys Liked Little Most Old Remember She Sounds Thought Three Toy Typewriter Visiting World Years I Remember Ibm

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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

Topics: About Any Before Calling Clearly Elsewhere Ever Felt Friend Mine Months Never Novel Novelist Particular Remember Six Started Telling Work Would Write

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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

Topics: Affecting Because First Intend Listen Make More Music Necessarily Pass Quickly Started Then Time Used Ways Wonder Would Writing

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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

~Gabrielle Zevin

Topics: Best Level Our Reading Represent Self Some Think Want I Think

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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

~Gabrielle Zevin

Topics: Books Bring Every Every Time Grandparents Me Saw Time Used

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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

~Gabrielle Zevin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 24th, 1977

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