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I prefer a cluttered workspace.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
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Cluttered
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.
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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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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.
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Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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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 prefer true over happy now.
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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