I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.
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… - Mavis Gallant
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…
- 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 brief as a dream… - 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 brief as a dream…
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — … - 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 asking about a story — …
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. - Mavis Gallant
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.
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part. - Mavis Gallant
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever. - Mavis Gallant
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and… - Mavis Gallant
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and…
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. - Mavis Gallant
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. - Mavis Gallant
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
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