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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.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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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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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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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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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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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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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
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I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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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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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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