Julia Glass Quotes
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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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
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It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
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Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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Mike Bibby's my brother.
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The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
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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.
