No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play… - Mavis Gallant
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play…
- Mavis Gallant
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream… - Mavis Gallant
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream…
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — … - Mavis Gallant
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — …
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble. - Mavis Gallant
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever. - Mavis Gallant
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and… - Mavis Gallant
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and…
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part. - Mavis Gallant
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. - Mavis Gallant
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. - Mavis Gallant
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
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