"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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Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library

Mavis Gallant

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Way Quotes

“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.”
“Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”
“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.”
“After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.”
“Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.”
“To all things clergic I am allergic.”

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