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. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
I’m not the kind of writer who’s able to block out the world around me. I’m mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive – maybe that’s the reason for all the wings in ‘Pure.’ Julianna Baggott Read Quote
If I’d learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can’t be a man, write like one. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently – as if whispering it into one ear – and to know the characters intimately. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer – one haunted by Catholicism. Julianna Baggott Read Quote
