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Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
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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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Memories are like water.
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I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
Julianna Baggott
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
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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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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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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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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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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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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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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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Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Julianna Baggott
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
Julianna Baggott
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Julianna Baggott
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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