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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
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch

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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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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
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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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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
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A cliché 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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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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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
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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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When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.
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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
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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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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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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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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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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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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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