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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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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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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
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