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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Catch
Fishes
Swimming
Fish

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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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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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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
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You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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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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Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
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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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My hatred gives me strength.
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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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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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