Julianna Baggott Quotes - Page 2

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

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.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

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.

Our love is our burden.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

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

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.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

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?

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.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

Memories are like water.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.