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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
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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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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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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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People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
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I prefer true over happy now.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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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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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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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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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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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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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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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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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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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