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If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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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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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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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.
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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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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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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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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
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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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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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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 imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
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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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...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.
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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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