Julianna Baggott Quotes

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I always like to tell a story.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

I tell a good story.

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Fiction is organized gossip.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.