Julia Glass Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.”

“Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.”

“I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.”

“I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.”

“I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.”

“I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!”

“Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.”

“Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.”

“Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.”

“I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.”