Gail Godwin Professions : Novelist Born : June 18, 1937 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Gail Godwin One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Godwin appreciate appreciation friendship Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin education thank-you inspirational There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing. Gail Godwin nice moving-forward two The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet. Gail Godwin missions littles character Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. Gail Godwin growth opportunity people Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. Gail Godwin forever time memories The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. Gail Godwin strange infinite focus The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning. Gail Godwin forward-motion found long The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Gail Godwin longing intense Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you. Gail Godwin vocation ifs Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. Gail Godwin language dream mean How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them. Gail Godwin want people needs None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. Gail Godwin preparation success reality I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them. Gail Godwin dark dream believe I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better. Gail Godwin shadow might thinking During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. Gail Godwin knows writing I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today? Gail Godwin coffee angel morning I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved. Gail Godwin enough practice believe If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. Gail Godwin hope world thinking I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself. Gail Godwin good-book ifs book Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
