“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 Feeling Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.” — Julia Glass Place 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
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
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always… — Julia Glass Ends 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 About 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
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Actual 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
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Best 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Itch Copy Share Image
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of… — Julia Glass Ability Copy Share Image
I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've… — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
“They agreed on four flavors of cake- vanilla, maple, orange, and coconut- to alternate, almost randomly, in twenty-one slim layers throughout the… — Julia Glass Coconut Copy Share Image
“Bet you did not know that in Mexico they call a Palomino an Isabella. Or that George Washington's warhorse was an Arab… — Julia Glass George w Copy Share Image
It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone… — Julia Glass Belts Copy Share Image
“I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather,… — Julia Glass Ancestors Copy Share Image
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted… — Julia Glass Book Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Almost 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
“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 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
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 Always Copy Share Image
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It… — Julia Glass Around Copy Share Image
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be… — Julia Glass Always 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
“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
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
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
“Morty trusted trees far more than he did people. 'You know what a tree can and cannot give you,' he said in… — Julia Glass Tree 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
“Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code… — Julia Glass Boyhood Copy Share Image
