Gail Godwin Quotes

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

teaching

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

dreams (during sleep)

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

self-centered

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

hope

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.

failure