I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial… — Julia Glass Copy Share
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles… — Julia Glass Copy Share
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look… — Julia Glass Copy Share
“Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code for men… — Julia Glass Copy Share
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass Copy Share
“On Thursday, the sandwiches Greenie made were pork tenderloins with chipotle mustard, the soup a puree of beets and pears with Beaujolais wine and… — Julia Glass Copy Share
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that… — Julia Glass Copy Share
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the… — Julia Glass Copy Share
“None of this Mad Mario showmanship- orange clogs and Bermuda shorts fit for Babar, sweetbreads garnished with squash blossoms stuffed with cheese from the… — Julia Glass Copy Share
“Bet you did not know that in Mexico they call a Palomino an Isabella. Or that George Washington's warhorse was an Arab named Magnolia.… — Julia Glass Copy Share
“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even in the… — Julia Glass Copy Share
