76 Quotes by Gail Godwin

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

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 of all the ways they might have been better.

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

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.

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

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

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

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.