Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevinis an American author and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
girl felt urges
I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
girl book needs
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.
girl dream sea
And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.
girl mother baby
The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
girl moving used
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
girl lying sound
...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
girl sorry looks
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
felt jew mixed
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
stupid thinking forever
Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
bookstores
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
calling clearly felt mine months particular six telling work
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.
saw time
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
kept publishing similar
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.
describing people physical somebody
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.