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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!

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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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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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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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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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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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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A womans mistakes are different from a girls
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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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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
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At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
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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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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
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