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Janet Burroway Quotes

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it Picture Quote #1

Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 in conflict with the background Picture Quote #1

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write Picture Quote #1

Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree Picture Quote #1

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate Picture Quote #1

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant Picture Quote #1

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What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it (Janet Burroway Quotes) Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree. (Janet Burroway Quotes) 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 (Janet Burroway Quotes) 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 in conflict with the background (Janet Burroway Quotes) The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order (Janet Burroway Quotes) 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 (Janet Burroway Quotes) Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page (Janet Burroway Quotes) 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 (Janet Burroway Quotes) Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write (Janet Burroway Quotes) Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree (Janet Burroway Quotes) The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate (Janet Burroway Quotes) I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant (Janet Burroway Quotes)