Gail Kathleen Godwin
Photo by Jerry Bauer
Born: 18 June 1937, Birmingham, Alabama
Biography from Wikipedia and her own website
Gail Godwin quotes:
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- Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. permalink
Gail Godwin - Every one of us is a soul, and we're tethered to our ego, and some egos are larger than others. permalink
Gail Godwin - Interview with Pia Erhardt for Narrative (7 October 2007) - Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. permalink
Gail Godwin - How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them. permalink
Gail Godwin - 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. permalink
Gail Godwin - I want to be a good person, to have a strong will but not be inflexible; to court joy; to develop humor and loyalty and patience; to learn to say less when no words improve the situation. permalink
Gail Godwin - The Making of a Writer (2006) - If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. You want to use up all your material, you want to amplify it, so that when you go there?s nothing left. permalink
Gail Godwin - Interview with Pia Erhardt for Narrative (7 October 2007) - None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime. permalink
Gail Godwin - One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. permalink
Gail Godwin - Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. permalink
Gail Godwin - The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. permalink
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 to yearning. permalink
Gail Godwin - The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. permalink
Gail Godwin - The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. permalink
Gail Godwin - You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. permalink
Gail Godwin
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