Julianna Baggott Want Quotations

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

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.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.