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Janet Burroway is an American author known for her novels and plays. Born on September 21, 1936, her works often delve into themes of personal identity, gender, and social issues.

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Famous 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.”

Writing Important Seems Able Vision Regret Reflection Criticism Dull Destructive Helpful Rejects Irrelevant

Author:Janet Burroway

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

Should Writing Novel Wonderful Justification Adequate Inadequate

Author:Janet Burroway

“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.”

Knows Writing Humans Desire Order Next Powerful Happened Higher

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“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.”

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Author:Janet Burroway

“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.”

Writing Stories Turns Literature Sex Interesting Trouble Birth Theme Sex Work

Author:Janet Burroway

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

Writing Mind Done Hands Pages

Author:Janet Burroway

“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.”

People Writing Ideas Belief Grows Ability Emotion Support Special Profound Spread Profession Crafts Mistaken Shallow Mediocre Glamour Mystique Special Gifts

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“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.”

Writing Book Grass Sensations Daring Routes Bent Blades Spinning Writing A Book Blinded

Author:Janet Burroway

About the Author

Born: September 21, 1936
Known for: Author
Quotes: 15

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Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craftRelated source material

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