Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there’s this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling. Miranda July Read Quote
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours’ sleep. Miranda July Read Quote
I didn’t have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don’t know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you’re not alone in that moment. Miranda July Read Quote
My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I’m always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven’t yet gotten to. That’s sort of the constant in my life. Miranda July Read Quote
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into. Miranda July Read Quote
There’s no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is. Miranda July Read Quote
I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death – being dead, being a soul – in a new way. Miranda July Read Quote
Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’ Miranda July Read Quote
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators – as if we can’t consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries. Miranda July Read Quote