Michael Gruber's Quotes
Born: 1940-10-01
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of Michael Gruber
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
Tags: Afternoon, Book, BornBut there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Tags: Art, Care, CharacterI don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Tags: Book, Books, SometimesI just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
Tags: Human, Mind, TryingI tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
Tags: Business, Public, WritingI think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
Tags: Humanity, Loves, ReadYou work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
Tags: Book, Hard, WorkGorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?
Tags: Great, Sad, TimeI just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.
Tags: Balance, Desire, WriteIt seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.
Tags: Reality, Seems, Story