"The sensation of writing a book is the……" — Janet Burroway
"The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route."
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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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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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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 Bent Quotes
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
— Julie Burchill
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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