“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently” — Julia Glass Animal Copy Share Image
When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people. — Julia Glass Animal Copy Share Image
Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“You have not truly met someone until you have looked him or her in the eye as a soul with a place… — Julia Glass Future 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
“Do you think too long a period of nightlessness,” mused Sandra, “could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a… — 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
Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the… — 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
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
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“responsible for their triumphs as well as their failures. She also told him, as if it were a well-known law of nature,… — Julia Glass Creative thinking Copy Share Image
And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried… — Julia Glass Beach 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
“I’ve heard again and again— mostly from friends who’ve lost other friends to AIDS— that it’s essential to see the corpse of… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients,… — Julia Glass Cooking 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
“Seven years ago, I joined a support group. The loneliness of my Clemlessness—privately, that’s what I called it—had become so acute that… — Julia Glass Loneliness Copy Share Image
“The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the… — Julia Glass Night Copy Share Image
“She hadn't bothered to go to bed, since Tuesday was one of the days on which she rose before dawn to bake… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass Art Copy Share Image
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I have this feeling,” Walter said, “that he operates on the philosophy that ‘what Walter doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where… — Julia Glass Confusion 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 Adage Copy Share Image
Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“He pictured her living alone in that tranquil house with its fine old furnishings, tending her flowers and fruit trees.” — Julia Glass Fruit trees Copy Share Image
“Here was someone you simply knew you could trust, who might nag or infuriate or sulk, but whose greatest charm lay on… — Julia Glass Character Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
