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Memories are like water.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
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Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
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I prefer true over happy now.
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Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
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I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
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People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
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