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Gail Godwin quotes: One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.

Gail Godwin quotes: Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Gail Godwin quotes: Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin quotes: How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Gail Godwin quotes: If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

Gail Godwin quotes: But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives.

But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives.

Gail Godwin quotes: I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

Gail Godwin quotes: One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Gail Godwin quotes: Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Gail Godwin quotes: The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Gail Godwin quotes: At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

Gail Godwin quotes: The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

Gail Godwin quotes: Other people don't exist when you're not with them.

Other people don't exist when you're not with them.

Gail Godwin quotes: the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.

Gail Godwin quotes: 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.

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.

Gail Godwin quotes: The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

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

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

Gail Godwin quotes: General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

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

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

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

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

Gail Godwin quotes: Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

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

Gail Godwin quotes: Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Gail Godwin quotes: Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

Gail Godwin quotes: Life is a disease ...

Life is a disease ...

Gail Godwin quotes: Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

Gail Godwin quotes: Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Gail Godwin quotes: Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ...

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ...

Gail Godwin quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.