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There is no God, there is only what you want.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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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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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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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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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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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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her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
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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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purification in fire. public cremation
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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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A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.
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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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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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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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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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