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> [The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/the-mystique-and-the-false-glamour-of-the-writing-profession-grow/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

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## More by Janet Burroway

> [The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/the-mystique-and-the-false-glamour-of-the-writing-profession-grow/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [What is the pattern of change?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/what-is-the-pattern-of-change/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/the-sensation-of-writing-a-book-is-the-sensation-of-spinning-blinded-2/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/most-writing-is-done-between-the-mind-and-the-hand-not-between-the/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/in-literature-only-trouble-is-interesting-it-takes-trouble-to-turn/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/if-character-is-the-foreground-of-fiction-setting-is-the-background/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/i-sit-and-pass-judgment-on-myself-this-is-dull-this-is-unclear-this/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/the-only-justification-for-writing-a-novel-is-that-it-should-be/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/good-girls-like-myself-need-subversion-being-solemn-i-aspire-to/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [In Literature, only trouble is interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/in-literature-only-trouble-is-interesting/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/what-matters-is-not-publication-or-success-success-is-bad-for-your/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/the-human-desire-to-know-why-is-as-powerful-as-the-desire-to-know/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [“Don't dread. Do.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/don-t-dread-do/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/reject-without-regret-whatever-seems-on-reflection-wrongheaded-dull/)

[Janet Burroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-burroway/)

> [Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-burroway/right-now-whether-you-re-in-writing-courses-getting-paid-in-credit/)

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