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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: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Wilmington
Delaware
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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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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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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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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My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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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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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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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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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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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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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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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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