Top 90 Julianna Baggott Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m a woman, but I’ve been a sexist, too.”

— Julianna Baggott

52. “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.”

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Julianna Baggott

54. “The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.”

— Julianna Baggott

55. “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.”

— Julianna Baggott

56. “And now I live with that sin of cowardice on my face forever.”

— Julianna Baggott

57. “My memories will be erased and then I’ll be force-fed the story from the society pages?”

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58. “You learn to exploit genre for the more important things – to my mind – like story, character, image, language.”

— Julianna Baggott

59. “Writers aren’t born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.”

— Julianna Baggott

60. “Try to think of writing as a gift – more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.”

— Julianna Baggott

61. “I’ve left the Church – for many reasons that I’ve written about publicly – but it’s still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.”

— Julianna Baggott

62. “His wings – she’s never seen them fully spread, massive and strong. She wants to tell him that this is how he was meant to be – as wrong as it was for her to do this to him, as wrong as it feels, he is this person in this moment, and there’s nothing more beautiful.”

— Julianna Baggott

63. “It’s not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They’ve made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.”

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Julianna Baggott

65. “My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.”

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Julianna Baggott

67. “Don’t shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.”

— Julianna Baggott

68. “I’ve never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.”

— Julianna Baggott

69. “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

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

— Julianna Baggott

71. “I feel too much. It’s like being drummed to death from within. You know?”

— Julianna Baggott

72. “I don’t have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.”

— Julianna Baggott

73. “Our love is our burden.”

— Julianna Baggott

74. “I’m a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.”

— Julianna Baggott

75. “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.”

— Julianna Baggott

76. “Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value.”

— Julianna Baggott

77. “When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.”

— Julianna Baggott

78. “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

79. “Once upon a time, privacy was valued. For goodness’ sake, a disabled president of the United States could ask that the press not photograph him in a wheelchair or being transferred to his car or generally in a weakened state, and the press would oblige. Those were the days.”

— Julianna Baggott

80. “I always doubt people... I’ve survived by not believing in other human beings.”

— Julianna Baggott

81. “One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling – even fleetingly – that I’m not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.”

— Julianna Baggott

82. “Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.”

— Julianna Baggott

83. “I don’t know you. That’s the problem.”

— Julianna Baggott

84. “I’d always wanted to know what it was like. Happiness.”

— Julianna Baggott

85. “It’s not the first time in his life he’s felt like a man.”

— Julianna Baggott

86. “To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he’d ever thought it would.”

— Julianna Baggott

87. “I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.”

— Julianna Baggott

88. “The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful. “What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.”

— Julianna Baggott

89. “I didn’t know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.”

— Julianna Baggott

90. “New losses dig up past losses, as if one needs the other to remember how it’s done.”

— Julianna Baggott

91. “You think you’ll fall in love again one day?” He straightens Partridge’s bow tie. “I sure as hell hope not.”

— Julianna Baggott

92. “While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer – one haunted by Catholicism.”

— Julianna Baggott

93. “Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.”

— Julianna Baggott

94. “I believe we’re brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we’re capable of.”

— Julianna Baggott

95. “Is he blaming her? Does he think she led on El Captain or was having a relationship with him at the same time as Bradwell? She turns and wals, unsteadily, along the walls of the airship, to the door in the cabin, now almost overhead, that leads outside.”

— Julianna Baggott