"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

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