Top 100 Quotes About Baggott
#1. 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
#2. Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
Richard Russo
#4. 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
#5. Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
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#6. I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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#7. I didn't know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.
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#8. 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.
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#10. Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
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#11. To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he'd ever thought it would.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#15. Are you saying that the people here aren't desperate? I think you're wrong. I think they are and they just don't know it.
Oh, they're desperate, all right, but so desperate that they're clinging to what they have.
Julianna Baggott
#16. 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.
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#18. Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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#20. 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 ...
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#21. Will you be my wife forever? Here and now and beyond all of this?
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#22. Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
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#24. Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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#25. Are there books about us or something? This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other
into the people we should become.
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#38. 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?
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#40. Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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#41. I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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#42. Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.
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#46. Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.
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#47. The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I've either been in love a dozen times or never. I can't tell.
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#50. 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.'
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#51. 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.
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#53. I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.
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#54. Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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#61. No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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#62. When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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#63. Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
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#64. The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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#65. 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.
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#66. While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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#70. Approach the world with sympathy and compassion, just don't take any of it very seriously.
Kate Baggott
#71. Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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#72. But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#76. She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood.
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#77. When I met you, I thought we were meant for each other, even though, in some ways, seemed very different and we kept fighting. But now ... "
"What?"
"Now I think we're meant for each other, but we are doing to each other, to become the people we become. You know what I mean.
Julianna Baggott
#78. 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.
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#79. [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?
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#80. Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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!
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#84. Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
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#85. Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.
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#87. Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.
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#88. 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.
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#89. The poem has to bear the weight with image, language ... the screenplay with dialogue, plot ...
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#90. Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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#91. The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.
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#92. I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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#93. Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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#94. Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
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#95. Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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#96. 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.
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#97. She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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