Gallant
Gallant
writing garden house
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
dream father writing
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.
people half world
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
notebook writing way
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.
father blessed blood
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.
stories looks window
A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.
distance aging term
Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...
forever rest-of-your-life might
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
writing affair love-affair
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
art life-and-death sculpture
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?
interesting fascination life-is
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
jobs writing eight
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.
characters closer consists fiction fixed flash frame freeze image showing simple slide
The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a slide or closer still a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation....
difference hard period plays power second took
The first period we competed hard and battled hard and had some power plays and just couldn't capitalize. In the second they had some power plays and they took advantage. That was the difference in the game. After the first period they just took it to us.