Heidi Julavits Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fashion, Regret, Writing

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

• Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fun, Writing, Challenges

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

• As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Fake, Challenges

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

• A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Way, Steps

  "The Brilliant Complications Of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

• Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Psychics, Creative Space

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

• I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Curiosity, Three

• I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

• I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

  Heidi Julavits

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

• A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher" - she didn't mean at Columbia, she meant in the spiritual sense - I decided my affliction was the universe telling me that it was time to stop writing fiction and become the spiritual guru I was clearly meant to be.

  Heidi Julavits

  Spiritual, Teacher, Pain

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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