Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on… — Julia Glass Accordions Copy Share Image
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape -… — Julia Glass Affecting Copy Share Image
“Except for the coconut cake (filled with Meyer lemon curd and glazed with brown sugar), most of the desserts she made for… — Julia Glass Apocalypse-now Copy Share Image
“Morty trusted trees far more than he did people. 'You know what a tree can and cannot give you,' he said in… — Julia Glass Trees 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
“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 Bake 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
Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete. — Julia Glass Death 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 Ask 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
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.” — Julia Glass Admiring 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
“She pulls from a shelf certain rare spices and sugars that her successor is unlikely to use. Insulating the jars with softbound… — Julia Glass Canned-foods 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 About Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Best Copy Share Image
Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops. — Julia Glass Drops 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 Time 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 Books Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass 19th century 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
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 After Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and… — Julia Glass Become Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass Need Copy Share Image
I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. — Julia Glass Continue Copy Share Image
