Quote by Julia Glass Download Open image ““People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”” — Julia Glass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“it's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish… — Norman Lewis Copy Share Image
“Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves.” — Stavro Nashi Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of living until old age if you forget to live on your way there?” — T.S. Joyce Copy Share Image
“Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.” — Jennifer R. Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It really isn't where you live as much as who you live with that makes a place feel like home.” — Carla Reighard Copy Share Image
“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Some people think that a place can save them... Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“This is the gift of travel. New places change your idea of what life can be.” — Laure Dugas 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 to say… — 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 also crucial… — Julia Glass 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 secrets, obstacles… — Julia Glass 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
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look… — Julia Glass 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 for men… — 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
“On Thursday, the sandwiches Greenie made were pork tenderloins with chipotle mustard, the soup a puree of beets and pears with Beaujolais wine and dill. For dessert, she made lemon wafers, rosewater marshmallows, and Amazon cake powdered with cocoa. Ray said, eyeing her preparations that morning. "Fancy schmancy. That soup looks like something we'd serve to folks from the White… — Julia Glass Copy Share
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime… — Julia Glass Copy Share
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald. — Julia Glass Copy Share
“None of this Mad Mario showmanship- orange clogs and Bermuda shorts fit for Babar, sweetbreads garnished with squash blossoms stuffed with cheese from the… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image