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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.

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

    • Janet Burroway,
    • in Eric Maisel, Fearless Creating ()
  • 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,
    • in Eric Maisel, Fearless Creating ()

Janet Burroway, U.S. writer

(1936)