Heidi Julavits Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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• You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.

  Heidi Julavits

  Want, Online, Should

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

  Heidi Julavits

  Somewhere Else, Want, Sometimes

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

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• I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a plot buff, and I'm really such a narrative buff, I can't seem to relinquish my - not just reliance - but excitement about those traditional techniques.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fiction, Narrative, Technique

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

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• 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.

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• 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

  Suffering, Purpose, Noble

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

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• 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

  Book, Discovery, Would Be

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

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• I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women. Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Psychics, Elements

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

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• Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

  Heidi Julavits

  Hate, Thinking, Today

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

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• I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.

  Heidi Julavits

  Plot, Reviews, Complication

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

  Heidi Julavits

  Crazy, Guy, World

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

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• I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Challenges, Desire

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

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• 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

  Smart, Inspire, Style

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

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• If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.

  Heidi Julavits

  Eye, People, Faces

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

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• I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to read. I think if I did get any kind of enhancement I would be very public about it. I don't want people wondering - I want them to know.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, People, Age

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

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• I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden.

  Heidi Julavits

  Daughter, Sleep, Emotional

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

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• We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

  Heidi Julavits

  Believe, People, Want

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

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• 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.

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• When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

  Heidi Julavits

  Husband, Character, Clothes

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

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• 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.

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• I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fake People, School, Thinking

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

  Heidi Julavits

  Half, My Own

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

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• I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

  Heidi Julavits

  Wish

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

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