Quote

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.

Janet Fitch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Self
Done
Writing
Really
Addictive
Library
Exercise
Control
Home

More quotes by Janet Fitch

Image
You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
Janet Fitch
Image
What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
Janet Fitch
Image
When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
Janet Fitch
Image
like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
Janet Fitch
Image
I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
Janet Fitch
Image
Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
Janet Fitch
Image
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
Janet Fitch
Image
The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
Janet Fitch
Image
I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
Janet Fitch
Image
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.
Janet Fitch
Image
Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
Janet Fitch
Image
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
Janet Fitch
Image
Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
Janet Fitch
Image
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
Janet Fitch
Image
What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
Janet Fitch
Image
I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
Janet Fitch
Image
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
Janet Fitch
Image
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.
Janet Fitch
Image
But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
Janet Fitch
Image
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
Janet Fitch