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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.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Time
Actress
Charge
Sister
Actresses
Ten
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Nyc
Living
Oldest
Wanted
Desperately

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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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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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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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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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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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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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
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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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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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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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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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