"The mystique and the false glamour of the……" — Janet Burroway
"The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre."
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10 Quotes by Janet Burroway
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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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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
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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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