Diane Johnson Citas

• But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

  Diane Johnson

  Jobs, Writing, Understanding

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• El mayor don de un capellán es estar presente y simplemente escuchar.

  Diane Johnson

  Chaplains, Just Listen

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• Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

  Diane Johnson

  Laughter, Add, Jam

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• Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

  Diane Johnson

  Brave Person, Frail, Persons

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• The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

  Diane Johnson

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

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• Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

  Diane Johnson

  Car, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

  Diane Johnson

  Work, Feelings

  Lying Low ch. 9 (1978)

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• ...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

  Diane Johnson

  Thinking, Purpose, Facts

  Diane Johnson (2003). “Le Divorce”, p.10, Penguin

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• Estatuillas de marineros borrachos, cuadros de terciopelo de doncellas isleñas, lámparas de conchas de plástico fabricadas en Taiwán. Qué desprecio sienten por los demás quienes idean souvenirs.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

  Diane Johnson

  Witty, Wicked, Novel

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• But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

  Diane Johnson

  May, Novel, Significance

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• In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

  Diane Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Crafts

  "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• El novelista, temeroso de que sus ideas puedan ser tontas, astutamente las pone en boca de algún otro tonto y se reserva el derecho de desmentirlas.

  Diane Johnson

  Ideas, Novelists, Mouths

  Diane Johnson (1982). “Terrorists and novelists”, Alfred A. Knopf

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