“It's actually Jane Austen who pushes Louisa Musgrove off the slippery rocks.”
Source: Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
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Famous Diane Johnson Quotes
“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
Source: Le Divorce
“In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.”
“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
Source: Terrorists and novelists
Source: Natural opium: some travelers' tales
“A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.”