Julia Glass Quotes

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.