Heidi Julavits Quotes

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

End, Writing, Everything

During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.
Heidi Julavits

Work, Find, Often

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
Heidi Julavits

Found, Books, Known

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

Read, Teach, Kinds

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.
Heidi Julavits

Time, Far, Spend

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.
Heidi Julavits

Women, Happens, Within

I won't 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

Life, Writing, Rather

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

Time, End, Through

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: 1968

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