Quote by Janet Burroway Download Open image ““Don't dread. Do.”” — Janet Burroway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?” — Stephen Carpenter Copy Share Image
“But I will leave you with a word of warning. If ever a feeling of dread or foreboding overcomes you, and if ever you… — Wendy Webb Copy Share Image
“That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.” — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
“You keep only darkness, my distant female, from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.” — James Herbert Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
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… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
