"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."

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Source : Gail Godwin (1985). “The finishing school”, Viking Pr

Gail Godwin

#Long Quotes #Forward Motion Quotes #Found Quotes

“When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.”
“I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.”
“Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.”
“However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.”
“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
“'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'”
“The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think weâ€™ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. Weâ€™ve seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.”
“At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.”

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