"In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes……" — 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 death."
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10 Quotes by Janet Burroway
Janet Burroway has 10 quotes on this site.
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The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is…
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Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living…
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Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical.…
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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
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The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who…
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In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation…
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If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may…
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What is the pattern of change?
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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