I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it. — Julianna Baggott Hope Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Bears Copy Share Image
Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling. — Julianna Baggott Constant Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Born Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice. — Julianna Baggott Make Copy Share Image
“The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.” — Julianna Baggott Beautiful things Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times. — Julianna Baggott Different Copy Share Image
“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in… — Julianna Baggott Deceiving Copy Share Image
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should. — Julianna Baggott Able 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 Agonizing 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 Boldly Copy Share Image
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be… — Julianna Baggott Calm Copy Share Image
“And I knew that I loved him with more than a nod. I loved him with a rush of tenderness, a lion's… — Julianna Baggott Loved Copy Share Image
“People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or… — Julianna Baggott Grown Limelight Copy Share Image
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language. — Julianna Baggott Character 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 Air Copy Share Image
People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are… — Julianna Baggott Differences Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Draws Copy Share Image
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not… — Julianna Baggott Fans Copy Share Image
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination… — Julianna Baggott Age Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because… — Julianna Baggott Adages Copy Share Image
“She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again. She clenches her fists and thinks,… — Julianna Baggott Every day 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 Art Copy Share Image
She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again. — Julianna Baggott Demand Copy Share Image
“My memories will be erased and then I'll be force-fed the story from the society pages?” — Julianna Baggott Erased Copy Share Image
Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor. — Julianna Baggott Best work Copy Share Image
“I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.” — Julianna Baggott Art Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on. — Julianna Baggott Different Copy Share Image
Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories… — Julianna Baggott Giving 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… — Julianna Baggott Alive Copy Share Image
“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… — Julianna Baggott Afraid Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see… — Julianna Baggott Adrift Copy Share Image
“The box we stored God i kept getting smaller...until only a speck of god still exists, maybe only an atom. Maybe an… — Julianna Baggott Religion-and-philoshophy Copy Share Image
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 Fuse Copy Share Image
