Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.
Julianna Baggott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Stories
Filled
Ideas
Subjects
Book
Instead
Real
Study
Trying
Books
Something
Story
Survive
World
Idea
Subject
People
Makes
Angry
More quotes by Julianna Baggott
I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
Julianna Baggott
I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
Julianna Baggott
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
Julianna Baggott
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
Julianna Baggott
Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
Julianna Baggott
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
Julianna Baggott
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.
Julianna Baggott
When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
Julianna Baggott
The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.
Julianna Baggott
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.
Julianna Baggott
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.
Julianna Baggott
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.
Julianna Baggott
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
Julianna Baggott
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Julianna Baggott
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
Julianna Baggott
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
Julianna Baggott
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.
Julianna Baggott
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
Julianna Baggott
I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
Julianna Baggott
Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
Julianna Baggott
