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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
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Writing
Vexing
Life
Richly
Agonizing
Obsession
Complexes
Complex
Relationship
Passion

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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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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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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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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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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
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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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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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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'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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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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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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