168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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”.