Julianna Baggott Quotes
Top 84 wise famous quotes and sayings by Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.
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.
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.
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood.
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.
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.
Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other
into the people we should become.
into the people we should become.
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
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.'
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.
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.
I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You've been planning to kill me!
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?
Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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.
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
Don't talk about dying? You want me to talk about love. They're one and the same, child. One and the same.
My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
Father can be the person you most hate and most fear, yes, but deep down you expect that he'll be the one to save you.
People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or its shadowy edge.
When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual