Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice. Julianna Baggott More Quotes by Julianna Baggott More Quotes From Julianna Baggott I prefer a cluttered workspace. Julianna Baggott workspace clutter Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should. Julianna Baggott weakness giving-up past She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope. Julianna Baggott real giving lying 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. Julianna Baggott sorrow grandfather doe 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? Julianna Baggott mother stories giving I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. Julianna Baggott running men believe Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you? Julianna Baggott want 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. Julianna Baggott dark writing trying 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. Julianna Baggott real book ideas 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 open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools Julianna Baggott tools personality heart Our love is our burden. Julianna Baggott our-love burden love-is 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. Julianna Baggott husband reading writing She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again. Julianna Baggott let-him-go release demand I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know? Julianna Baggott too-much knows feels I prefer true over happy now. Julianna Baggott My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story. Julianna Baggott stories knows character I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect. Julianna Baggott writing character art 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. Julianna Baggott childhood bored writing Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. Julianna Baggott stories writing lying I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith. Julianna Baggott humans have-faith struggle
