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.
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
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
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 conf… - Janet Burroway
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 conf…
Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to… - Janet Burroway
Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to…
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
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.
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 ti… - Janet Burroway
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 ti…
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
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.
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 emot… - 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 emot…
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 lum… - Janet Burroway
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 lum…
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 is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
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