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Mavis Gallant Quotes

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered Picture Quote #1

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live Picture Quote #1

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy Picture Quote #1

A writer’s life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct Picture Quote #1

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled Picture Quote #1

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part Picture Quote #1

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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift Picture Quote #1

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, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express Picture Quote #1

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner Picture Quote #1

A writer’s life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever Picture Quote #1

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies Picture Quote #1

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... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered (Mavis Gallant Quotes) I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live (Mavis Gallant Quotes) [My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. (Mavis Gallant Quotes) A writer’s life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. (Mavis Gallant Quotes) Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled (Mavis Gallant Quotes) Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part (Mavis Gallant Quotes) I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift (Mavis Gallant Quotes) 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, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express (Mavis Gallant Quotes) 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 Quotes) A writer’s life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct (Mavis Gallant Quotes) 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 (Mavis Gallant Quotes) There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait (Mavis Gallant Quotes) 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 Quotes) Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever (Mavis Gallant Quotes) She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies (Mavis Gallant Quotes)