Words matter. These are the best Julianna Baggott Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Don’t shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
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.
Writers aren’t born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
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.
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that’s how faith grows stronger.
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.
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.
The basic rule of storytelling is ‘show, don’t tell.’
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer – one haunted by Catholicism.
I’m not the kind of writer who’s able to block out the world around me. I’m mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
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.
A good novel doesn’t just transcend the boundaries of its target market – it knows nothing about target markets.
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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.
