168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

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.

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

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

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

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

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

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

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

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.