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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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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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She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.
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A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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A womans mistakes are different from a girls
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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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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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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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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
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My hatred gives me strength.
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You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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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.
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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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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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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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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.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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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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