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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

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
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Mutual
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Thing
World
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My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.
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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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One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
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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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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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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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.
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Memories are like water.
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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 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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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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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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