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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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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
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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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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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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.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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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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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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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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