Julia Glass

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

— Julia Glass

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”

— Julia Glass

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

— Julia Glass

“We’re all alive the day before we die.”

— Julia Glass

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

— Julia Glass

Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

— Julia Glass

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

— Julia Glass

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

— Julia Glass

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a…

— Julia Glass

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

“You have not truly met someone until you have looked him or her in the eye as a soul with a place…

— Julia Glass

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

— Julia Glass

“Carrying a plate on which she'd placed a sandwich made with burlap bread, she looked over my shoulder.”

— Julia Glass

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

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

“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”

— Julia Glass

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's…

— Julia Glass

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

“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best…

— Julia Glass

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer…

— Julia Glass

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that…

— Julia Glass

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

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course…

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“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

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The…

— Julia Glass

“But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients,…

— Julia Glass

“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

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw…

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“Greenie had brought together ingredients for cherry bread. It was a variation on Irish soda bread, baked in a cast-iron skillet with…

— Julia Glass

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats,…

— Julia Glass

“Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue American, folded roundabout in a blanket of…

— Julia Glass

“So there was a martini- something he hadn't tasted since college- and there was wine, and there was a dinner most remarkable…

— Julia Glass

“Except for the coconut cake (filled with Meyer lemon curd and glazed with brown sugar), most of the desserts she made for…

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“She pulls from a shelf certain rare spices and sugars that her successor is unlikely to use. Insulating the jars with softbound…

— Julia Glass

“SWEET POTATO BISQUE WITH CRABMEAT GRAPEFRUIT ICE IN A SWEET TORTILLA CRISP LAMB SEARED IN ANCHO CHILI PASTE ON POLENTA TWO CHUTNEYS:…

— Julia Glass

“And there was the moon. A warm and visible greeting, a beacon of relief. Full, unshrouded, its edges crisp. It looked like…

— Julia Glass

“Lass.' Saga turned away to hide her smile. How like a fairy tale, that word. Rapunzel. A tall tower by a deep…

— Julia Glass

“It was Friday, so the farmers' market was in full autumnal swing, a sea of potted chrysanthemums and bushel after bushel of…

— Julia Glass

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

— Julia Glass

“Rage cools fast without an accessible target.”

— Julia Glass