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I prefer true over happy now.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
True
Prefer
Happy

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The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
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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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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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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.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
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I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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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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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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