What did Gail Godwin mean by: Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. Gail Godwin Author Copy
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Discovery, Knowledge, Self-awareness, 0 Gail Godwin Author
I read constantly. If I don’t have a good book, I’m beside myself. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Emotion, Passion, Reading, 0 Gail Godwin Author
You’re supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it’s an agreeable tiredness. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Gardening, Labor, Satisfaction, 0 Gail Godwin Author
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Preparation, Teaching, Theatre, 0 Gail Godwin Author
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn’t want or need anything from them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Altruism, Happiness, Relationships, 0 Gail Godwin Author
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Growth, Negativity, Opportunity, 0 Gail Godwin Author
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Intensity, Longing, 0 Gail Godwin Author
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying? Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gail Godwin, Adventure, Comfort, Risk, 0 Gail Godwin Author
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
