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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 feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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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 write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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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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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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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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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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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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Memories are like water.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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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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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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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 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.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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