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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
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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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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 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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I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
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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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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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