Julianna Baggott Quotes

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

The world is frenzied - giving and taking.

Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.

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.

She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.

Our love is our burden.

She feels sick. She hates this world.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

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

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

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.

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

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

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.

The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.

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.

If home isn't a place, what is it?'

'A feeling.

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

I'd always wanted to know what it was like. Happiness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

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

But this kind of love can't survive. Love's a luxury.

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.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he'd ever thought it would.

Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.

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?

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.

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

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.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Don't talk about dying? You want me to talk about love. They're one and the same, child. One and the same.

Even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.

It was the brightest entry into darkness.

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.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

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

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

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

Sometimes your secrets are your only value.

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

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.

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

Will you be my wife forever? Here and now and beyond all of this?

I always doubt people ... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.

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.

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

The box we stored God i kept getting smaller ... until only a speck of god still exists, maybe only an atom.
Maybe an atom is all we need.

I prefer true over happy now.

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

I've either been in love a dozen times or never. I can't tell.

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.

You're a hero here.'
'I don't want to be a hero.'
'What do you want?'
'I want to be a leader.

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

The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.

Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other
into the people we should become.

I didn't know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Memories are like water.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value

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!

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

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.

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.'