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Julia Glass Quotes

American - Novelist | March 23, 1956 -

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Good Heart Myself Soul Mind Reading

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'

Life Good Experience People World

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Art Purpose Reality Moral Creation

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Fear Truth Best Compassion Ugly

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Art Language Visual Native Foreign

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.

Winter Sports Feet You Ground Your

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

Nature Wonder Never Real Always See

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

Time Writing Friends Early Feeling

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

Writing Sometimes Way Other Around

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.

Good Great Best School Bridge Help

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

People Create Real Fiction Days

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.

Love Father House Born Variety Just

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