Quote

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Janet Fitch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Depression
Anger
Suffering
Part
Human
Humans

More quotes by Janet Fitch

Image
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.
Janet Fitch
Image
It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
Janet Fitch
Image
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
Janet Fitch
Image
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
Janet Fitch
Image
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
Janet Fitch
Image
We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
Janet Fitch
Image
How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
Janet Fitch
Image
without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
Janet Fitch
Image
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
Janet Fitch
Image
It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
Janet Fitch
Image
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
Image
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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
What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
Janet Fitch
Image
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
Janet Fitch
Image
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
Janet Fitch
Image
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
Janet Fitch
Image
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.
Janet Fitch
Image
Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
Janet Fitch
Image
To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
Janet Fitch