Inspirational Quote by Janet Burroway Download Open image “In Literature, only trouble is interesting.” — Janet Burroway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Interesting Literature Trouble
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 literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing. — Celia Fremlin 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
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
