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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.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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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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A womans mistakes are different from a girls
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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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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
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What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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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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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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I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!
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