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What is real is always worth it.

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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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
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Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.
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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
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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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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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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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How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
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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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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
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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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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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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
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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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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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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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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.
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