Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Julie Schumacher.
Last updated on November 20, 2024.
Julie Schumacher is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and academic. She is a Regents Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Minnesota. Schumacher specializes in creative writing, contemporary fiction, and children's literature.
Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
Boredom is why God invented books.
I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.