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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Everyone
Dream

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Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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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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They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.
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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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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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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
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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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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
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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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