Gail Godwin Quote

If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. You want to use up all your material, you want to amplify it, so that when you go there's nothing left.

Narrative (7 October 2007)

If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. ...

If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. ...

If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. ...

If writing is your vocation, it keeps making more of you. But when you get to be an older writer, you enter a room where you want to use yourself up. ...