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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Bottles
Boat
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Various
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Boats
Genres

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I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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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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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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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.
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She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.
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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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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