Janet Burroway Quotes

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• The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher…
• 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 how…
• In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.
• Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to…
• Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
• 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…
• In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from…
• 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 in…
• What is the pattern of change?

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