Julianna Baggott Quotes

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• A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

  Julianna Baggott

  Target Market, Boundaries, Novel

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• Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

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  Mistake, Way, Sometimes

  Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Believe, Teaching

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

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• Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

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  Done, Wit And Humor, Republican

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

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• I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

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  Praying

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

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  Running, Believe, Men

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• Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

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  Love Is, Indulge In, Luxury

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• I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

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  Waiting, Something New

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

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• People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

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  Heart, Differences, People

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• I prefer true over happy now.

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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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  Giving Up, Past, Weakness

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• Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

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  Encounters, Crosses, Form

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

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• Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

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  Different, Sometimes, Knows

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• The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

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  Plot, Weight, Bears

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

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• If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

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  Motivation, Writing, Giving

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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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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

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  Love, Average, Hands

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• But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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  Bad Things

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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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  Strong, Children, Imagination

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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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• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

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  Mean, Imagination, Catholic

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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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  Character, Stories, Ears

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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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  Wall, Wings, Office

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

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  Lying, Writing, Stories

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