Mavis Gallant Quote

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.

The Collected Stories (ed. Everyman's Library, 2016) - ISBN: 9781101907641

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...