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Julie Schumacher QUOTES

Julie Schumacher QUOTES

1 " Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear. "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

2 " Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it "

― Julie Schumacher , Black Box

3 " Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough. "

― Julie Schumacher , Grass Angel

4 " 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? "

― Julie Schumacher , Black Box

5 " Still, all was quiet downstairs…and now the concept of leaving his bed had sent an urgent body-gram to his bladder, which over the years had become a thimble-sized organ with an impetuous streak. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Shakespeare Requirement

6 " Boredom is why God invented books. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

7 " 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. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

8 " A drowning person doesn't rescue herself. "

― Julie Schumacher , Black Box

9 " Belatedly it occurs to me that some members of your HR committee, a few skeptical souls, may be clutching a double strand of worry beads and wondering aloud about the practicality or usefulness of a degree in English rather than, let’s say, computers. Be reassured: the literature student has learned to inquire, to question, to interpret, to critique, to compare, to research, to argue, to sift, to analyze, to shape, to express. His intellect can be put to broad use. The computer major, by contrast, is a technician—a plumber clutching a single, albeit shining, box of tools. "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

10 " I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

11 " There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

12 " Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down. "

― Julie Schumacher , Black Box

13 " The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another. "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

14 " I haven’t published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself. "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

15 " One theory here: the deanery is annoyed with our requests for parity and, weary of waiting for us to retire, has decided to kill us. Let the academic year begin! "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

16 " 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. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

17 " and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us—some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again. "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

18 " October 16, 2009 Avengers Paintball, Inc. 1778 Industrial Blvd. Lakeville, MN 55044 Esteemed Avengers, This letter recommends Mr. Allen Trent for a position at your paintball emporium. Mr. Trent received a C– in my expository writing class last spring, which—given my newly streamlined and increasingly generous grading criteria—is quite the accomplishment. His final project consisted of a ten-page autobiographical essay on the topic of his own rageful impulses and his (often futile) attempts to control them. He cited his dentist and his roommate as primary sources. Consider this missive a testament to Mr. Trent’s preparedness for the work your place of business undoubtedly has in store. Hoping to maintain a distance of at least one hundred yards, Jason T. Fitger Professor of Creative Writing and English Payne University (“Teach ’til It Hurts”) "

― Julie Schumacher , Dear Committee Members

19 " ...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in. I still loved opening a book and feeling like I was physically entering the page, the ordinary world fizzing and blurring around the edges until it disappeared. "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

20 " To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth? "

― Julie Schumacher , The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls