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Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is 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.

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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

Catholic, Imagination, Raised

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.

Indulge In, Love, Love Is, Luxury, Simply

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Believe, Humanity, Past, Spirit, Worries, Worry

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

Alone, Bad, Bad Things, Everyone, Life, Maybe

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

Giving, Mother, Preserve, Says, Stories

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

Giving, Giving Up, Hope, Past, Weakness

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

Fix, Mistake, Sometimes, Twice, Way

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Believe, Life, Men, Running, Unjust, World

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

Believe, Children, Know, Teaching, Things

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

Collectives, Underestimated, Collective, Power, Constantly, Pull

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.

Age, Aside, Children, Imagination, Imaginations, Strong

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

Formal, Intricacy, Plotting, Thrillers, Writing

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

Different, Know, Knows, Life, Sometimes

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.

Becomes, Lying, Omission, Process, Sin

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

Boundaries, Genre, Instead, Separated, Write, Writing

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Fear, Releasing, Shame, Young

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

Combat, Done, Humor, Republican, Wit And Humor, Work

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.

Athlete, College, Men, Lawyers, Accountants

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Different, Genre, Genres, Needs, Times

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

Character, Characters, Know, Knows, Stories, Tell

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