Done Quote by Janet Burroway Download Open image “Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.” — Janet Burroway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Done Hands Mind Pages Psychology Writing
When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words. — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
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I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
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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
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
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