All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you… — Julia Glass Demon 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 Money 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
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
“My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the… — Julia Glass Beyond the horizon 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
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 Anyone 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
“Hugo planned a five-course meal: smoked duck, oyster stew, roast beef with mashed yams, a salad of apples with beets and blue… — Julia Glass Dessert Copy Share Image
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep… — Julia Glass Connoisseur Copy Share Image
“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 Creative thinking 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
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
“We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.” — Julia Glass Family 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
“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
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.” — Julia Glass 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
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Astonishing Copy Share Image
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass Books Copy Share Image
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in… — Julia Glass About Copy Share Image
Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an… — Julia Glass About 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
“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
