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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Stride
Positivity
Forward
Ways
Looking
Keep
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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
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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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Memories are like water.
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Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.
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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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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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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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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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Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
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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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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
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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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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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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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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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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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