Top 22 Burroway Quotes
#1. Fink had a full bowl and grinned at me as he sat back on the bench. "It would help if you used words like 'please' and 'thank you.'"
"Then I'll thank you to please stay out of my business.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. By my guess she was about a yard from where my feet were on the couch.
Priscilla West
#5. We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
Baba Kalyani
#6. Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
#7. It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
J.K. Rowling
#8. It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man , and the second, Then do as you please.
Albert J. Nock
#9. No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.
Bob Bergen
#10. A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
Janet Burroway
#14. I'm glad you were both here, I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.
Emily Giffin
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. She was nearly fainting: indeed, she wished she could really faint, but faints don't come for the asking.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
Janet Burroway
#21. The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."
Mary Norris
