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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.
— Heidi Julavits
But girls . . . girls, mishandled, are a menace.
— Heidi Julavits
Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
My behavior makes perfect sense to me.
— Heidi Julavits
I reread books to measure my degree of difference from myself.
— Heidi Julavits
Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"
— Heidi Julavits
Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.
— Heidi Julavits
Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
— Heidi Julavits
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.
— Heidi Julavits
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.
— Heidi Julavits
I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.
— Heidi Julavits
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
— Heidi Julavits
When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
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.
— Heidi Julavits
I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.
— Heidi Julavits
Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.
— Heidi Julavits
At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.
— Heidi Julavits
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.
— Heidi Julavits
We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.
— Heidi Julavits
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
— Heidi Julavits
I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!
— Heidi Julavits
