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The Making of a Writer: Journals, 19611963,Used
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Gail Godwin was twentyfour years old when she wrote: I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created. It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. Now, in The Making of a Writer, Godwin has distilled her early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence. She conveys the feverish period following the breakup of her first marriage; the fateful decision to move to Europe and the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men); the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose; and the determination to create despite rejection and a growing stack of debts. I do not feel like a failure, Godwin insists. I will keep writing, harder than ever.Brimming with urgency and wit, Godwins inspiring tome opens a shining window into the life and craft of a great writer just coming into her own.A generous gift from a muchloved author to her readers.Chicago SunTimesFull of lively, entertaining observations on the literary life . . . [captures] the spirit of a young writers adventure into foreign lands and foreign realms of thought and creative endeavor.The Atlanta JournalConstitutionAs cities and continents and men change, the entries are borne along by . . . the young Godwins fierce conviction that she is meant to write fiction and her desire to distract herself from this mission with any man who catches her eye.The New York Times Book Review[Godwin] describes a highwire act of love and work. . . . She espouses fierce, uncompromising ideas about fiction.Los Angeles Times[Gail Godwins journals] are a gold mine.The Boston Globe
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