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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Delaware
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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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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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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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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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 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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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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As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
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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 want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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