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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.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Write
Else
Nothing
Great
Writing
Men
Like
Writer
Learned

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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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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
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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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
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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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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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