Julia Glass Quotes

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.