I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“I contemplated how I was going to get through the rest of the day and felt the onset of a terror I thought I… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
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… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
