Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Julianna Baggott - Page 2

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

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.

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

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.