Quotes from Julianna Baggott

All this time, you've been lying to me!

Sometimes your secrets are your only value.

I am who I am at any given moment…. That's the only way you can know me.

We're wretches but we're still capable of this - songs rising up inside us.

Olmak istedi?imiz ki?i olamay?z her zaman.

What uif God and the truth are the same thing? What if the truth is at the center of everything? If you believe in that, you believe that the truth will win out in the end. It will reveal itself...

Yehuda bile Tanr?'n?n plan?n?n bir parças?yd?.

And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!

Like my ancestors, I believe that stories can save us. Our stories are our greatest currency. What one person is willing to share with another is a test of intimacy, a gift that's given.

The storyteller is the survivor, after all.

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.

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.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

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.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.