Mavis Gallant Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 11, 1922 - February 18, 2014
Birthday: August 11
Death: February 18
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, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?
source: Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books
topic: Children, Believe, Writing, Alps, Dry Land
