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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.
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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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'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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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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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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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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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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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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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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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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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
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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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