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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: 68
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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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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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.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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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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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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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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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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