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 mind important
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
sorrow grandfather gone
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.
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.
memories water
Memories are like water.
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.
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.
praying
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
clutter workspace
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
giving-up past able
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
matter bottles boat
Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
born hard knows
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
loss years next-year
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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.