It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound. Miranda July More Quotes by Miranda July More Quotes From Miranda July It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. Miranda July matterstorieswanted He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands. Miranda July his-eyeseyehands He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. Miranda July moving-forwardwaitingmoving Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. Miranda July lost After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it. Miranda July wisesillybook I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves. Miranda July circleswishclass You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too. Miranda July crazypeopleworld 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. Miranda July hypnosiswritingthinking This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed. Miranda July stronghomerunning Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't. Miranda July liarsbeautifulbelieve I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That's always sort of fascinating to me. Miranda July secretspiritualthinking I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing. Miranda July life-is-too-shorthardwhole I was going to die and it was taking forever. Miranda July diesforever It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time. Miranda July loving-someonegiving-upwriting I think titles are tricky because they're like a really short ad for the book. And like an ad, they should open the door in a way that might be more accessible than the book itself. So I always like titles to be familiar. I'm not trying to break ground with the title itself. The title should feel like something already celebrated. Miranda July tryingbookthinking Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a million drafts and things changing radically and characters appearing and disappearing and solving mysteries: Why is this thing here? Should I just take that away? And then realizing, no, that is there, in fact, because that is the key to this. I love that sort of detective work, keeping the faith alive until all the questions have been sleuthed out. Miranda July things-changewritingcharacter People who would not be using the word gender or thinking about gayness or trans-ness may actually, without even thinking about it, be not their own gender in their inner world. I think that's actually so normal, because female sexuality is sold to all of us. It doesn't just reach the eyes of men. You might not care about the idea of boobs or jugs or whatever, but it could impact your inner sexual life. Miranda July eyementhinking People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression. Miranda July first-impressionimportantpeople Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described. Miranda July people I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. But my way into making movies has been through performing. My very first short film, I played a child and her own mother. So in some ways, to me, my great achievement so far is just that I've gotten all these other people to play the other parts. That's what makes it a real movie. Miranda July realmotherchildren
