Julia Bell > Quotes

“Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.”
― Julia Bell, The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

“I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.”
― julia bell, The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

“In such a square context,
we grow in bent shapes,
our love made beautiful by our restraints.”
― Julia Bell, Queer Life, Queer Love

“In the same way that a word repeated over and over begins to sound bizarre, so an object scrutinized with such attention will start to shed its everyday invisibility. So pepper grinders become armless women who scream when their heads are twisted and rain bitterness, a cheese-grater becomes a steel wall of tears, or a light bulb the lost eye of a Cyclops. The”
― Julia Bell, The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry