"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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Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.136, New York Review of Books

Mavis Gallant

#Dream Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?”
“I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.”
“Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.”

Source : "Slowly Adapting Art: Moving with the Times" by Nika Knight, www2.oberlin.edu. April 27, 2007.
“There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.”

Source : "Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System". Book by David B. Reynolds, 1997.
“Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.”
“When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one,”
“Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.36, New Directions Publishing
“I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.”

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