Julianna Baggott Quotes

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.