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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.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Delaware
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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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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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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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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've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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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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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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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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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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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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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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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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