Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.