The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
Julia LeighI've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.
Julia LeighThe concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
Julia LeighTo me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
Julia Leigh