Heidi Julavits Quotes
Top 35 wise famous quotes and sayings by Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.
Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.