Diane Johnson quotes
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“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”
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“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.”
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“A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.”
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“Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.”
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“Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.”
-- Diane JohnsonSource : Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.”
-- Diane JohnsonSource : Diane Johnson (1982). “Terrorists and novelists”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.”
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“Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.”
-- Diane JohnsonSource : Lying Low ch. 9 (1978)
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“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
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“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
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“In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.”
-- Diane JohnsonSource : "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.
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“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
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