"I began to ration my writing, for fear……" — Mavis Gallant
"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."
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16 Quotes by Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant has 16 quotes on this site.
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Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
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Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
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All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed,…
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Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.…
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No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I…
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I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not…
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I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this…
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There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many…
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She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to…
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Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the…
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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