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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
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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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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've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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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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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.
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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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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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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 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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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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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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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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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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The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
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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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