Quote by Gail Godwin

“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

“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed”

— Gail Godwin

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

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

— Gail Godwin

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

— Gail Godwin

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

“Other people don’t exist when you’re not with them.”

— Gail Godwin

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

— Gail Godwin

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

— Gail Godwin

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

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

— Gail Godwin

“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