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… — 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
