Miranda July

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

— Miranda July

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it…

— Miranda July

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that…

— Miranda July

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

— Miranda July

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year

— Miranda July

Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in…

— Miranda July

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

— Miranda July

“He didn't call me for a few weeks. This was customary within our friendship, confide and retreat, but I wondered. I wondered…

— Miranda July

LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be…

— Miranda July

“Fear was for poor people. Maybe this was the happiest I’d ever been.”

— Miranda July

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't…

— Miranda July

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

— Miranda July

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

— Miranda July

“At its best, my system gives me a smoother living experience. My days become dreamlike, no edges anywhere, none of the snags…

— Miranda July

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and…

— Miranda July

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so…

— Miranda July

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why…

— Miranda July

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and…

— Miranda July

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

— Miranda July

“I typed "royal family" into a dream-interpretation website, but they didn't have that in their database, so then I typed "butt" and…

— Miranda July

“Will you date me when I ask you out? it asked. Yes. Even if I’m ugly and you don’t like my personality?…

— Miranda July

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and…

— Miranda July

And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't…

— Miranda July

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you…

— Miranda July

I mean obviously we're all dealing with a lot more strangers due to the web. I'd say it has more to do…

— Miranda July