While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he'd ever thought it would.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When I met you, I thought we were meant for each other, even though, in some ways, seemed very different and we kept fighting.… — julianna baggott Copy Share Image
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… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“My memories will be erased and then I'll be force-fed the story from the society pages?” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“How do you know me?" she says. He looks at her through his narrow eyes. "I was," he says. "You were what?" she asks.… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
