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
praying
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
clutter workspace
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
matter bottles boat
Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
storytelling shows
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
college catholic becoming
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
husband reading writing
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.
senior sibling writing
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.
voice style different
Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.
holocaust childhood suffering
My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.
generations calm shouting
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.
reading writing practice
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
positivity way want
I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
athlete college men
If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans...
done wit-and-humor republican
Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.