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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
Relationship
Passion
Writing
Vexing
Life
Richly
Agonizing
Obsession
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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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 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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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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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 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'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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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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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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Memories are like water.
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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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