Julia Glass famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
-- Julia Glass

#Yarn #Facts #Ends
And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.
-- Julia Glass

#Dog #Training #Fans
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
-- Julia Glass

#Expectations #Disappointed
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.
-- Julia Glass

#Teacher #Book #Writing
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
-- Julia Glass

#People #Guessing #Sometimes
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.
-- Julia Glass

#Soul #Citizens #Nonchalance
But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.
-- Julia Glass

#People #Way #Things Change
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
-- Julia Glass

#Crazy #Writing #World
It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.
-- Julia Glass

#Vacation #Fool #Odd
Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.
-- Julia Glass

#Choices
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. Without any conscious intention on my part, animals come to play a significant role in my fiction: in Three Junes, a parrot and a pack of collies; in The Whole World Over, a bulldog named The Bruce. To dog lovers, by the way, I recommend My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley -- by far the best 'animal book' I've ever read.
-- Julia Glass

#Dog #Horse #Book
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.
-- Julia Glass

#Rain #Nurse #Joy
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
-- Julia Glass

#Years #Play #Long
Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.
-- Julia Glass

#Mind #Matter
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
-- Julia Glass

#Swimming #Looks #Lines
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
-- Julia Glass

#Confusion #Shadow #Delay
Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.
-- Julia Glass

#Thinking #Knowing
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 result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.
-- Julia Glass

#Believe #Cutting #Cake
When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.
-- Julia Glass

#Dog #People #Forget
All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.
-- Julia Glass

#Perfect #People #Giving

You may also like:

Akhil Sharma
Author
Andre Dubus
Novelist
Ayelet Waldman
Novelist
Colm Toibin
Novelist
Dinaw Mengestu
Novelist
Donna Leon
Author
Emma Donoghue
Playwright
Gabrielle Zevin
Author
Gail Caldwell
Critic
Greg Iles
Novelist
Jeanette Winterson
Writer
Katherine Howe
Novelist
Margot Livesey
Writer
Meg Wolitzer
Writer
Michael Cunningham
Writer
Nevada Barr
Author
Paul Harding
Musician
Richard Russo
Novelist
Sarah Waters
Novelist
Tea Obreht
Novelist