Janet Burroway Quotes

• Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• La mística y el falso glamour de la profesión de escritor surgen en parte de la creencia errónea de que las personas que pueden expresar ideas y emociones profundas tienen ideas y emociones más profundas que el resto de nosotros. No es así. La capacidad de expresar es un don especial con un oficio especial que lo sustenta y se reparte de forma bastante equitativa entre los profundos, los superficiales y los mediocres.

  Janet Burroway

  Escritura, Ideas, Personas

  Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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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 be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

  Janet Burroway

  Character, Fiction, May

  Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown

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• 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

  Sex, Writing, 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 of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• 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

  Powerful, Writing, Order

  Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown

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• 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

  Children, Land, Apples

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• 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

  Regret, Writing, Reflection

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• The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Adequate, Wonderful

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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

  What Matters, Practice, Imaginative

  "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

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• In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

  Janet Burroway

  Interesting, Literature, Trouble

  Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown

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• Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

  Janet Burroway

  Girl, Fall, Musical

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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 and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• 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

  Dull, Judgment, Unclear

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• What is the pattern of change?

  Janet Burroway

  Patrones

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