Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

I would like to warn you against the mistake that causes people to advance the hands of their clocks, thinking that thereby they are hastening the passage of time

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

I often feel like everything is moving so fast that I can barely recount where I was the day before, what I had for breakfast, or how great my workout was.

Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

Time is something you can't get back.

I wish I was in my 20s during the '90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty exciting time being from Chicago, seeing Jordan win six rings.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

The green thing I don't think frightens kids. It frightened me when I was like little because I didn't have the internet and didn't have all these other things that were, you know, in front of me at all times and accessible.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.