"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."

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Source : Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown

Janet Burroway

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“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”

Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.
“Your network is your filter.”
“No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?”
“My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.”
“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.”
“I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.”

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