{"product_id":"making-of-a-writer-book-gail-godwin-9780812974690","title":"The Making Of A Writer","description":"Gail Godwin was twenty-four 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrimming with urgency and wit, Godwin's inspiring tome opens a shining window into the life and craft of a great writer just coming into her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA generous gift from a much-loved author to her readers.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of lively, entertaining observations on the literary life . . .  captures] the spirit of a young writer's adventure into foreign lands and foreign realms of thought and creative endeavor.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs cities and continents and men change, the entries are borne along by . . . the young Godwin's 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.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Godwin] describes a high-wire act of love and work. . . . She espouses fierce, uncompromising ideas about fiction.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gail Godwin's journals] are a gold mine.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53349408768273,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53349408866577,"sku":"CIN0812974697G","price":5.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780812974690.jpg?v=1786131308","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/making-of-a-writer-book-gail-godwin-9780812974690","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}