Julianna Baggott Quotes - Page 2

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• While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

  Julianna Baggott

  College, Catholic, Becoming

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• I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Writing, Character

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 2012.

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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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  Passion, Writing, Agonizing

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• Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

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  Important, Lessons, Genre

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

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  Born, Knows, Hard

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• The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

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  Storytelling, Shows

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• Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

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  Lying, Writing, Stories

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• I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

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  Different, Needs, Genre

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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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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  Believe, Past, Evil

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• The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

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  Sports, Winning, Years

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• Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

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  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

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  Character, Stories, Knows

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

  Julianna Baggott

  Lying, Omission, Sin

  Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

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  World, Obsession, Mutual

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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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  Writing, Bored, Childhood

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• Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.

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  Husband, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

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  Loss, Years, Next Year

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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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  Writing, Men, Want

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• Our love is our burden.

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  Love Is, Our Love, Burden

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• I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

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  Writing, Dark, Trying

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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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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  Heart, Personality, Tools

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.112, Hachette UK

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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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  Real, Book, Ideas

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

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  Want

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

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  Mother, Giving, Stories

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.231, Hachette UK

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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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  Real, Lying, Giving

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.74, Hachette UK

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