Quotes by Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits

A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

Girl

Mean

School

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

Sometimes

Somewhere Else

Want

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

Hate

Thinking

Today

I always think it’s useful to get an outside opinion.

Opinion

Thinking

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?

Book

Marveling

People

I can’t even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Heart

Humorous

Imagination

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.

Daughter

Emotional

Sleep

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

Half

My Own

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Adore

Fiction

Kind

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Quotes by Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits

A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

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

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

I always think it’s useful to get an outside opinion.

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?

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

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

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