When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people. — Julia Glass Animal Copy Share Image
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. — Julia Glass Disappointed Copy Share Image
“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently” — Julia Glass Animal 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 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 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 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
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 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
“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
Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best… — Julia Glass Dream Copy Share Image
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass 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 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 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 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“Before heading back up the road, she had turned for a moment toward the sea. In the late afternoon light, the water… — Julia Glass 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 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 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
“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
“We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?” — Julia Glass Best friend Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass 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
“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.” — Julia Glass Alive Copy Share Image
I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. — Julia Glass 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 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
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
