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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Praying
Hope
Thought
Anything
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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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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.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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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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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
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Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
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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 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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I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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