372 Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

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

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

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.

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.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

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