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Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
American Author
Born: Nov 9, 1955
Me People Work World Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. Janet Fitch
Depression Anger Suffering Part Human Being Being Human
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?' Janet Fitch
Great Me You Library World Engineer Father Journalist Every Local Our Books Weeks Writer Take He Arms Read Readers Shelf Off Up Branch Literary Them Two Pull Two Weeks
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. Janet Fitch
Memory Dimension Any Landscape Fourth
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder. Janet Fitch
Life You Ride Kid Arabian Small Horses Read Little Little Kid Across Your Desert Aware
For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile. Janet Fitch
Work Me Bench Back Something Rather Inventive Pound Put Go Workshop Awhile
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. Janet Fitch
People Everything Run Atomic Atomic Bomb Most Verbs Stocking Use Explosion Describe Twenty Bomb
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. Janet Fitch
Life Love My Life All My Life Computer Terrible Waited Person Handwriting
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical. Janet Fitch
Me Writing Own Books My Own Unconscious Know Until Issues Going Autobiographical Fiction Mean Explore Use Even
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college. Janet Fitch
Teacher Me Writing College Humiliate Kid Tried Write Had Until Senior Fiction Again Little Little Kid
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. Janet Fitch
Writing Old Secretary Write Like House Modern Wooden Little Room Old-Fashioned Desk
Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you! Janet Fitch
You Man Women Sacrifice Suitable Unknown Way Rules Kind Some Pretty He Know Involved Attractive Him Making Get Being Breaking Realize Then Much Your Many Even
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house. Janet Fitch
You Down Every Society Universe Fragmented Know Look House Block Up Up And Down Very Different Anymore
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be. Janet Fitch
You Approaches Never Get Artist Want
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Janet Fitch
Great World Engineer Father Journalist Writer He Readers Literary
As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major. Janet Fitch
History Had Studied Major Undergraduate Literature
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Janet Fitch
Character You World Events Other Mood Scene Emotional Around How Authors Establish Notes Landscape Use Help Describing Description Keep Tone
I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them. Janet Fitch
Care Society Our Take Take Care Nobody Concerned Always Been Left Children Happens Them
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library. Janet Fitch
Life Library Writing World My Life Become Past Spend More Historian Than Going Just Want Realized Then Started
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal. Janet Fitch
Time Abstraction Always Go Personal Hard Hard Time
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky. Janet Fitch
God Thoughts Energy Universe About Shaky Abstract Connection Vague
Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time. Janet Fitch
Time Long Long Time Idol Literary
You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud. Janet Fitch
Good Great You Writing Reading Mouth Great Believer Corners Say Bad Bland Prose Aloud Texture Taste Realize Realizing Your Believer Start
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it. Janet Fitch
You Never Bottom Know Until Because How End Going Really Novel
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way. Janet Fitch
Music Myself Dark Music Scene Way Bit Scene Perfectionist Also Very Hard
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled. Janet Fitch
Future Woman Become Young Luck Solely Possibility Some Arena Remain Writer Writers Had Like Author Middle-Aged Young Writers Who Profession
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones. Janet Fitch
Business Book Every Telephones System Lawn Marvelous Delivery Sale Amazon Same Really Products Function Imaginable
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