"The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own."

-- Peter De Vries

#Character Quotes #Space Quotes

“I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.”
“I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.”
“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)”

Source : Les Regrets Sonnet 9 (1558)
“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.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.66, Everyman's Library
“[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.”
“If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.”
“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
“a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries”

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