"Most writing is done between the mind and……" — Janet Burroway
"Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page."
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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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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth,…
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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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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 Hand Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
— Julian Assange
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
— Charles Babbage
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As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it…
— Joe Baca
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we…
— Michelle Bachelet
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