What did David Mitchell mean by: For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. - David Mitchell Novelist · England Copy
+ I can write pretty much anywhere. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Writing, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. Feraz Zeid, May 1, 2023January 10, 2024, David Mitchell, Book, Finishing, Love, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Book, Challenge, Loses, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ If war’s first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Efficiency, War, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Eloquent, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ I think it’s natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Youth, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ The truth of a myth…is not in its words but its patterns. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Myth, Patterns, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Lunatics are writers whose works write them. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Writing, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. - Jennifer Echols Author
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works - Gabrielle Zevin Author · USA
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. - Quiara Alegria Hudes Playwright
