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Never apologize. Never explain.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Apologize
Apologizing
Explain
Never

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To make films, you have to have boundless energy you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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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.
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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.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
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What is real is always worth it.
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I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
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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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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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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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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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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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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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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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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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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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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
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