The Finishing School
A source page for quotes linked to Gail Godwin.
Related Quotes
Source: The Good Husband
“There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie.”
Source: The Good Husband
“When someone has enough money, logistics can be worked out in no time.”
Source: Evensong
Source: Grief Cottage
Source: The Finishing School
Source: Flora
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Source: The Finishing School
“Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?”
“Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.”
“At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.”
“Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.”
“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.”
Source: The Finishing School
“Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.”
Source: Evensong
“Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.”
Source: The Finishing School
Source: The Best American short stories, 1985
“How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.”
“During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.”
“Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.”
Source: The Finishing School
“You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.”
“The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.”
“The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.”