In retrospect, I didn’t really want to be a slut. What I wanted and needed was a therapist who would consent to fucking me, but I doubted my parents’ insurance would have covered that. I had a lot to figure out for myself and I did that by making poor decisions that summer. If some wise, authoritative adult could simply have explained why I wanted to do these things and then done some with me, I think I would have refrained from most of my sexual misadventures...


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The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro...
JULIA GLASS
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always...
JULIA GLASS
You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS
Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue America...
JULIA GLASS
At this point, moving it doesn't make sense.
ALEX GLASS
This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.
ALEX GLASS
The outlook right now is unfortunately that we're facing incredibly tight budget times and the feder...
ALEX GLASS
It's so lame. They know they're going to lose so they know better than (to) offer anything good.
ALEX GLASS
The Farm Bill provides the resources for farmers and rural communities, and has a major effect on Wa...
ALEX GLASS
Sen. Murray is incredibly concerned about the impact of these cuts on students and affordability.
ALEX GLASS
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters&...
JULIA GLASS
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always...
JULIA GLASS
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude ...
JULIA GLASS
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS
Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent ...
JULIA GLASS
If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of...
JULIA GLASS
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
JULIA GLASS
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
IRA GLASS
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any mor...
CARTER GLASS
We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips...
JEREMY GLASS
It's changing faster than you can blink. You would be surprised at how many people live above the st...
BRIAN GLASS
She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding.
BRIAN GLASS
Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands jus...
BRIAN GLASS
That last inning was incredible.
BRIAN GLASS
This is truly an historic occasion.
BRENT GLASS
There was no 'golden age' of rebuilding. They had the same controversies then that we have now.
BRENT GLASS
There wasn't a golden age when we weren't thrashing them out.
BRENT GLASS
Hip hop has reached well beyond its urban roots to diverse national dimensions and has been an integ...
BRENT GLASS
The survival of this flag for nearly 200 years is a visible testimony to the strength and perseveran...
BRENT GLASS
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to a...
JULIA GLASS
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS
'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS
Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cle...
JULIA GLASS
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or wor...
PHILIP GLASS
This plan [to disenfranchise felons] will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State i...
CARTER GLASS
This plan [to disenfranchise felons] will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State i...
CARTER GLASS
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money
CARTER GLASS
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of...
JULIA GLASS
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wante...
JULIA GLASS
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS
The mole-rat raps too. It's kind of scary.
SARAH GLASS
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of th...
JULIA GLASS
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
JULIA GLASS
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cr...
JULIA GLASS
I've learned from doing both that we tend to get more benefit from a low-key approach. You run the r...
WILLIAM GLASS
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ...
JULIA GLASS
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a land...
JULIA GLASS
She hit the ball well. Jennifer Hecht served well to keep her in the front row to get all those kill...
LAURIE GLASS