Mavis Gallant People Quotations

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.

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.