Julianna Baggott Quotes

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Julianna Baggott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: September 30, 1969

Topics

ConfidenceTruthArtCollegeStart

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

Jhumpa Lahiri

TimeStartStoryThinkYouLadder

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

Jo Nesbo

WorkMorningTimeBestMindIdeas

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

Robert Glasper

IntegrityPlayKindRadioAnything

Color is key to making your makeup pop and have your unique look stand out amongst the rest.

Jeffree Star

MakeupRestColorKeyStandLook

If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses.

Michael Fossel

AgingMeFreeYouBodyDown

You can't tell someone how to write their own book.

Stefflon Don

BookSomeoneYouWriteTellOwn

The world is its own magic.

Shunryu Suzuki

WorldMagicOwn

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Russell Crowe

DefeatCannotDestinedAttracted

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Milan Kundera

GoodBadPlaceOrderActThings

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Josiah Royce

HomeHeartWavesFactsLonelyHim

Multinational brands, especially those with successful legacies, often struggle in emerging countries.

Dinesh Paliwal

StruggleSuccessfulMultinational

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Dick Clark

FindTrendsOutJustSetThem

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