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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: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Praying
Hope
Thought
Anything
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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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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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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