Gail Godwin Quotes
- Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
- Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
- None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
- 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.…
- The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
- How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
- During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
- 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.
- Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
- 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…
- You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
- The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
- The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
- 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…
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
- One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.