What did David Mitchell mean by: For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. - David Mitchell Novelist · England Copy
+ I have always preferred maps to books. They don’t answer you back. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Book, Maps, Questions And Answers, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ The healthy can’t understand the emptied, the broken. Feraz Zeid, June 18, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Broken, Healthy, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ There are so many cities in every single city. Feraz Zeid, August 22, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Cities, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Accepted, Ordinary, Victory, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Different, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? Feraz Zeid, October 16, 2023December 26, 2023, David Mitchell, Atlas, Ocean, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Footprint, Trails, 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
