Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass Need Copy Share Image
Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later. — Julia Glass Choice Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass Around 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 Best 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 Demonstrate Copy Share Image
I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. — Julia Glass Continue Copy Share Image
“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.” — Julia Glass Alive Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass About Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass A good thing 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
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their… — Julia Glass Arrive 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 Answering Copy Share Image
“It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose… — Julia Glass Dark Copy Share Image
“None of this Mad Mario showmanship- orange clogs and Bermuda shorts fit for Babar, sweetbreads garnished with squash blossoms stuffed with cheese… — Julia Glass Cheese Copy Share Image
“I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning, A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning. But at night when she bloomed I felt… — Julia Glass Browning Swan Copy Share Image
“Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns Who plays his pipe among the churns. He's a coward, he's benighted, He makes everyone… — Julia Glass Coward Copy Share Image
I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned… — Julia Glass Bike 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
“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even… — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know,… — Julia Glass Balance 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 Aversion Copy Share Image
“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 Alan-glazier 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
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 Animal Copy Share Image
“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 Bread 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, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.” — Julia Glass Animal Copy Share Image
But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves. — Julia Glass Change Copy Share Image
“What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your… — Julia Glass Life Copy Share Image
My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive… — Julia Glass Deadline Copy Share Image
Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or… — Julia Glass About Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Back 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 wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Always Copy Share Image
“Carrying a plate on which she'd placed a sandwich made with burlap bread, she looked over my shoulder.” — Julia Glass Curmudgeon 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 Continues 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
