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
“Lass.' Saga turned away to hide her smile. How like a fairy tale, that word. Rapunzel. A tall tower by a deep… — Julia Glass Book 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 Create 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 Believer 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 About 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
“Ira felt as if he'd contracted an all-over emotional itch, as if he'd put on a sweater made of spiritually abrasive wool-… — 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 Boards 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 About 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
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask… — Julia Glass Citizens 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 Adult Copy Share Image
“Everybody, will you please just sit for a minute? Like children in a game of musical chairs, Tommy's three guests immediately reach… — Julia Glass Children 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 Too long Copy Share Image
If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still… — Julia Glass About Copy Share Image
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. — Julia Glass Disappointed Copy Share Image
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a… — Julia Glass Currents Copy Share Image
“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 Alan-glazier 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 Books 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 Chaotic Copy Share Image
But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves. — Julia Glass Change Copy Share Image
“Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?” — Julia Glass Best friend Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you… — Julia Glass Love Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass Around Copy Share Image
