25 Quotes by Diane Johnson
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Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
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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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...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?
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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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I don't know why in the world you would want to turn Cream Ridge into suburbia. I tell people it's the best kept secret in New Jersey.
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I will miss being involved in the daily happening of young people and having the opportunity to see them mature.
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I saw a white T-shirt and a blond head on the other side of the tree and honked the horn for about 10 seconds,
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Our whole idea is to save these things for future generations.
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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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