My love of books – not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety – was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar. Julia Glass Read Quote
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. Julia Glass Read Quote
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I’ll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible. Julia Glass Read Quote
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. Julia Glass Read Quote
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories. Julia Glass Read Quote
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. Julia Glass Read Quote
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. Julia Glass Read Quote
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don’t. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers. Julia Glass Read Quote
I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. Julia Glass Read Quote
