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
nyc actresses wanted
My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
clutter workspace
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
praying
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
demand let-him-go release
She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
character mind important
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
too-much feels knows
I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
different sometimes knows
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
art dirty book
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
love average hands
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.
I prefer true over happy now.
giving-up past able
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
love-is our-love burden
Our love is our burden.
heart personality tools
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
weight bears plot
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot...