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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

Janet Fitch

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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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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
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His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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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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I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
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