The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail CaldwellHope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
Gail CaldwellMy idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
Gail CaldwellIf writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
Gail CaldwellIt's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.
Gail Caldwell