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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.

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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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?
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A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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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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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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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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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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