"A writer's life stands in relation to his……" — Mavis Gallant

"A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct."

16 Quotes by Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed,…
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.…
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I…
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not…
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this…
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many…
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to…
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the…

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct… — Jane Austen
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite… — Honore de Balzac
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic… — John Berger
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the… — William Blake
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my… — Johannes Brahms
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct… — George Washington Carver
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would… — Sam Abell
We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine.… — Unknown Author
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.… — Sun Tzu
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty… — Alexander Hamilton

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