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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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 woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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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 want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.
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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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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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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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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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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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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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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 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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Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
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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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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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