Julia Glass Quotes
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I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
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Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.
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Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.
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To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.
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People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.
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Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.
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Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.
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I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
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I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.