Miranda July Quotes

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I was going to die and it was taking forever.

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

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.

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

So this was what it was like not to be me.

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.

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.'