"I didn't start writing so that I could……" — Julianna Baggott
"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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49 Quotes by Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott has 49 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
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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…
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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…
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First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand…
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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…
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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
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If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative…
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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