Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.

More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

Ebooks had to happen.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.