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

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Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing. — Julianna Baggott

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The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work. — Julianna Baggott

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[She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap? — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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

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

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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church. — Julianna Baggott

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

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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language. — 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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Once upon a time, privacy was valued. For goodness' sake, a disabled president of the United States could ask that the press not photograph him in a wheelchair or being transferred to his car or generally in a weakened state, and the press would oblige. Those were the days. — Julianna Baggott

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Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done. — Julianna Baggott

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I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of. — Julianna Baggott

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

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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.' — 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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The truth that writers secretly harbor is that all books are failures. We try to do something that can't be done. Words. Is that all we rely on? Smudgy ink marks on a page? Pallid wisps and blotches? Text as scaffolding trying to hold up worlds? Actually, no, it's not all we rely on. What's worse is our reliance on the reader. A writer is forever locked in an interdependent relationship. It's like building a bridge from opposite sides of a river - our flimsy words and their frail, overreaching imaginations. The bridge will never meet in the middle. It's not possible. Sometimes you haven't even decided on the same river. The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis missed in the middle by a matter of inches the first time around. They tried again and made it. Writers know we never will. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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Sometimes your secrets are your only value. — Julianna Baggott

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The bombs disrupted molecular structures. The cocktails included the distribution of nanotechnology to help to speed up the recovery of the earth - nanotechnology that promotes the self-assembly of molecules. The nanotechnology, speed up by DNA, which is an informational material but also excellent at the self-assembly of cells, made our fusing stronger. And the nanotechnology that hit the humans trapped in rubble or scorched land helped them to regenerate. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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

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

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She feels sick. She hates this world. — Julianna Baggott

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We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them. — 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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Memories are like water. — Julianna Baggott

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She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood. — Julianna Baggott

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I'd always wanted to know what it was like. Happiness. — 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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You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make. — Julianna Baggott

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When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher. — Julianna Baggott

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

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I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art. — Julianna Baggott

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

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If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ... — Julianna Baggott

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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

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His wings - she's never seen them fully spread, massive and strong. She wants to tell him that this is how he was meant to be - as wrong as it was for her to do this to him, as wrong as it feels, he is this person in this moment, and there's nothing more beautiful. — Julianna Baggott

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

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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith. — 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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Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — 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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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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Part of the post-apocalyptic, dystopian trend is that it seems to go hand in hand with young adult novels. Maybe that's because it's not simply the adults who are aware of the current crisis. Teens are the ones who are being told, again and again, that their futures are in jeopardy. The teen years can feel dystopian even in the best of times. But I don't think we realize how much pressure and feeling of doom we're passing down to our teens. — Julianna Baggott

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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you? — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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How do you know me?" she says.
He looks at her through his narrow eyes. "I was," he says.
"You were what?" she asks.
"I was," he says again. "And now I'm not. — Julianna Baggott

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

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

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

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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. — 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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Will you be my wife forever? Here and now and beyond all of this? — Julianna Baggott

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

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I prefer true over happy now. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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

'A feeling. — Julianna Baggott

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

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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! — Julianna Baggott

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

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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Our love is our burden. — Julianna Baggott

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

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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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

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One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself. — Julianna Baggott

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

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But she's still afraid that the more she misses him
his face, his skin, the way he looked at her
and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose. — Julianna Baggott

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

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I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it. — Julianna Baggott

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

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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When boys grow into men, their boyishness is still apparent each time they abandon themselves a little. I stretch against them sometimes
lovesickness, it is the same ache as homesickness for me
and I marvel. The length of their bodies, it's where I find my house, my old street, Ashbury Park and all of its yowling
men, they walk around carrying my country, my motherland, and they don't even know. They don't have the tiniest idea. — Julianna Baggott

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She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes
as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow. — Julianna Baggott

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And I knew that I loved him with more than a nod. I loved him with a rush of tenderness, a lion's share. (Is that ever enough?)
I wanted to survive. I had to. I never called. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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

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The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful. — Julianna Baggott

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I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it. — Julianna Baggott

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

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The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds. — Julianna Baggott

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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should. — Julianna Baggott

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She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope. — Julianna Baggott

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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. — Julianna Baggott

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

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My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death. — Julianna Baggott

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

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

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

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Finally she said, "When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too ... "
Don't grow up," I told her. "It only gets more confusing. — 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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She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion. — Julianna Baggott