Words matter. These are the best Miranda July Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don’t want to be self-conscious. I don’t want to be thinking about the fact that I’m thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It’s one element of hypnosis.
I’m not embarrassed about not having read any book.
I’ve been using the same ‘I Ching’ since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the ‘I Ching.’
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.
When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.
I’m not a cinephile. My films don’t reference films. I’m more interested in rhythm and feeling.
I’m quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.
I think this is how life is. It’s not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.
Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there’s this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.
I’m often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that’s never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook’s ‘Somebody’s Baby’ or Nina Berberova’s ‘The Tattered Cloak.’
My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I’m always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven’t yet gotten to. That’s sort of the constant in my life.
I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I’m not alone. I think that’s the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself – some sort of context of other women making things.
We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn’t feel like they had enough to do.
I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.
Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’
I actually don’t have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.
I’m the kind of person who is always thinking, ‘What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?’
I know I’m going to lose a lot of readers over this, and I don’t care: ‘Garfield’ is overrated. I have always felt this, even as a child. That dumb man and his dumb, mean cat have gotten more of our attention than they deserve.
My husband and I are two people who never thought we’d be married.
I eat an egg every morning, and when I’m done, I almost always have the thought: ‘There. Now even if I’m captured and starved, I’ll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.’
There’s no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.
My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours’ sleep.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death – being dead, being a soul – in a new way.