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Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

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

Gabrielle Zevin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1977

Topics

Book Believe Right Just Found Like

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Life Me Writing Internet Year Down

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Family Father Mother Character Think

I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows.

Michael Carbonaro

Love Live Forward Look Acting Need

The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath.

Evolution Breath Production Needs

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Win You Lose Realize Difficult How

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

Not Perfect Perfect

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

World Up Population Make Percent

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Talent Page Three Matter Write Does

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

Seeing Rules Students Mechanical

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.

Heart Think Artist Say Will Out

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

Dennis Haysbert

Football Childhood Baseball Wall Sir

The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.

Life Father My Life Kind First Out

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