168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

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

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

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

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

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

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.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

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