Julianna Baggott Quotes - Page 2

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• She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Grandfather, Doe

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

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  Too Much, Feels, Knows

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

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  Demand, Let Him Go, Release

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

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  Lying, Writing, Stories

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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.

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  Art, Writing, Character

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 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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• 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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  Church, Identity, Reason

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Character, Play, Trying

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

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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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• 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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  Real, Men, Thinking

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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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• I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

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  Writing, Want, Brutal

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

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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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• 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.

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  Lying, Omission, Sin

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

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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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  College, Catholic, Becoming

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

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  Positivity, Want, Way

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

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

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  Storytelling, Shows

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• Memories are like water.

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  Memories, Water

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• Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

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  Looks, Enough, Hard

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.285, 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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• 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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