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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Language
Screenplays
Plot
Poem
Dialogue
Bear
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Screenplay

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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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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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.
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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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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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 try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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