Top 90 Julianna Baggott Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.”

— Julianna Baggott

2. “Will you be my wife forever? Here and now and beyond all of this?”

— Julianna Baggott

3. “The basic rule of storytelling is ’show, don’t tell.”

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

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5. “I’m about to start something new. I’m waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.”

— Julianna Baggott

6. “Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.”

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7. “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

8. “But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”

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9. “The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.”

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10. “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

11. “I prefer true over happy now.”

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12. “She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Memories are like water.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “All this time, you’ve been lying to me!”

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17. “Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

— Julianna Baggott

18. “People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren’t natural.”

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19. “I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.”

— Julianna Baggott

20. “Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.”

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

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22. “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.”

— Julianna Baggott

23. “The sky is a bruise, only a storm will heal it.”

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24. “Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.”

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25. “I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.”

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26. “If you look at the world one way, it takes from you – it’s a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.”

— Julianna Baggott

27. “A wave could crash down on an individual and sweep them out to sea. But if we stand together, we buoy up and then down. It’s but a ripple.”

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28. “A good novel doesn’t just transcend the boundaries of its target market – it knows nothing about target markets.”

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29. “There are always rumors, and there are always secrets. And secrets within secrets. They protect us. The truth can be manipulated. But we live within a secret within a secret within a secret within a secret.”

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30. “I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.”

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31. “We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated – who got in, who didn’t. There was a master list. We weren’t on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can’t let them.”

— Julianna Baggott

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

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33. “Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.”

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34. “I’ve either been in love a dozen times or never. I can’t tell.”

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35. “I don’t know when I’m writing dark. I don’t know when I’m writing funny or even heartbreaking. I’m always just trying to write it true.”

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36. “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.”

— Julianna Baggott

37. “I prefer a cluttered workspace.”

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38. “Literature has done great work for feminism – writing and reading are a practice of empathy – and great literature will continue to do so.”

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39. “Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that’s how faith grows stronger.”

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40. “You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person’s ear – and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.”

— Julianna Baggott

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41. “Perhaps we’re all doomed to fail as mothers, but if so, it’s better to err on the side of showing too much love, not too little”.”

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42. “The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again – without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.”

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43. “I didn’t start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.”

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44. “I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.”

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45. “Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.”

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46. “Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”

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47. “Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.”

— Julianna Baggott

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48. “These are the little things that people should really appreciate, simple pleasures.”

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

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50. “Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.”

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