Mavis Gallant Quotes

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.

talent

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.  It is the business of critical biography to make the two overlap—to bring some of the furniture out to the garden, as it were, and spread flowers all over the house.

biography