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Julianna Baggott

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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. - Julianna Baggott
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. - Julianna Baggott
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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
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I prefer a cluttered workspace. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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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
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. - Julianna Baggott
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.' - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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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. - Julianna Baggott
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