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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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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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Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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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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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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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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