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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/i-still-do-not-know-what-impels-anyone-sound-of-mind-to-leave-dry/)

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## More by Mavis Gallant

> [“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/like-his-father-like-jules-renard-he-had-been-carried-along-the-slow/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/success-can-only-be-measured-in-terms-of-distance-traveled/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [“Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/converts-have-it-soft-said-mary-they-come-to-it-late-without-ever/)

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> [“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom he admired,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/if-your-life-isn-t-exactly-the-way-you-want-it-to-be-by-the-time-you/)

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> [All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/all-lives-are-interesting-no-one-life-is-more-interesting-than/)

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> [I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/i-believed-that-if-i-was-to-call-myself-a-writer-i-should-live-on/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [ \[My father\] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/my-father-had-spent-his-own-short-time-like-a-priest-in-charge-of-a/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [“There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/there-is-a-term-for-people-caught-on-a-street-crossing-after-the/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/like-every-other-form-of-art-literature-is-no-more-and-nothing-less/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/i-write-every-day-as-a-matter-of-course-it-is-not-a-burden-it-is-the/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/no-one-is-as-real-to-me-as-people-in-the-novel-it-grows-like-a-living/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/my-mother-has-lived-every-day-of-her-life-as-if-it-were-preparation/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/against-the-sustained-tick-of-a-watch-fiction-takes-the-measure-of-a/)

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> [I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/i-wanted-to-live-in-paris-and-write-nothing-but-fiction-and-be/)

[Mavis Gallant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mavis-gallant/)

> [“If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mavis-gallant/if-you-listen-at-doors-you-hear-what-you-deserve/)

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