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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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?
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.
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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress
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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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