Quotes by Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

… appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Appeals

Memories

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

Blessed

Blood

Father

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Looks

Stories

Window

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

Garden

House

Writing

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.

Childhood

Dream

Grief

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

Fascination

Interesting

Life Is

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

Forever

Might

Rest Of Your Life

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.

Dream

Father

Writing

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.

Notebook

Way

Writing

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, an extension of make believe – something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing – how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

Believe

Children

Writing

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Affair

Aging

Appeals

Art

Believe

Blessed

Blood

Book

Childhood

Children

Distance

Dream

Fascination

Father

Forever

Garden

Girl

Grief

Half

House

Interesting

Jobs

Life And Death

Life Is

Looks

Love Affair

Matter

Memories

Might

Notebook

Paris

Patience

People

Reading

Real

Rest Of Your Life

Sadness

Sculpture

Stories

Term

Waiting

Way

Window

World

Writing

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Quotes by Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

… appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

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

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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