Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggottis a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1969
Julianna Baggott quotes about
character stories knows
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
struggle have-faith humans
I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
believe goodness brutes
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.
encounters form genre
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
different needs genre
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
important lessons genre
Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
writing cutting fighting
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
writing plot want
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.
lying writing use
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
art character writing
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.
matter bottles boat
Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
writing bored childhood
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.
believe past evil
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
college catholic becoming
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.