Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC FRSCwas a French Canadian author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth22 March 1909
CountryCanada
money time funny-life
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
dream ideas forever
Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.
triumph endure difficult
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
mind engagement judgment
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
pain moving long
poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.
tragedy life-is feels
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.