Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.