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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.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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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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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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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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