Emily Mitchell Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
April 26, 1975

Emily Mitchell is an Anglo-American writer. Her debut novel, The Last Summer of the World, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2007. It concerns the photographer Edward Steichen in the context of World War I and was a finalist for the 2008 Young Lions Award for fiction.

The trees whisper messages among themselves, but they are not old enough yet to have anything more profound to say than human beings do, so it is not advisable to spend much time listening to them. The mountains by contrast are exceedingly old. But they don't talk very often.

Emily Mitchell
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell