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Janet Fitch Quotes

It wasn’t awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn’t want pain, she wouldn’t want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn’t unthinkable Picture Quote #1

It’s your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You’re exposed, like dreaming you’re naked in a public building Picture Quote #1

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character Picture Quote #1

I’m always gratified when I check something I’ve made up and discover that I’ve gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn’t possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious Picture Quote #1

My father gave me Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that Picture Quote #1

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm Picture Quote #1

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Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don’t want people to know Picture Quote #1

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season Picture Quote #1

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There’s the threat of the loss of approval Picture Quote #1

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn’t a guest, you didn’t play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. -white oleander Picture Quote #1

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story Picture Quote #1

I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water Picture Quote #1

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Rena noticed me watching it pass. ‘You think they don’t got problem?’ Rena said. ‘Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.’ She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. ‘We are the free birds. They want to be us Picture Quote #1

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn’t want to spend my life in the library Picture Quote #1

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away Picture Quote #1

I’d rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it’s not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in Picture Quote #1

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way Picture Quote #1

A book's flaws make it less predictable Picture Quote #1

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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have Picture Quote #1

My hatred gives me strength Picture Quote #1

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster Picture Quote #1

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental Picture Quote #1

Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic Picture Quote #1

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy Picture Quote #1

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I felt suddenly cruel, like i´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed Picture Quote #1

The phoenix must burn to emerge Picture Quote #1

How many people ask you to come share their life? Picture Quote #1

A fish has no concept of water Picture Quote #1

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand Picture Quote #1

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California Picture Quote #1

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It wasn’t awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn’t want pain, she wouldn’t want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn’t unthinkable. (Janet Fitch Quotes) It’s your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You’re exposed, like dreaming you’re naked in a public building. (Janet Fitch Quotes) Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I’m always gratified when I check something I’ve made up and discover that I’ve gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn’t possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious. (Janet Fitch Quotes) My father gave me Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that. (Janet Fitch Quotes) While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm. (Janet Fitch Quotes) Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don’t want people to know. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. (Janet Fitch Quotes) Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There’s the threat of the loss of approval. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn’t a guest, you didn’t play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. -white oleander (Janet Fitch Quotes) The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. (Janet Fitch Quotes) Rena noticed me watching it pass. ‘You think they don’t got problem?’ Rena said. ‘Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.’ She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. ‘We are the free birds. They want to be us. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn’t want to spend my life in the library. (Janet Fitch Quotes) This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I’d rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it’s not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in. (Janet Fitch Quotes) I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way. (Janet Fitch Quotes) A book's flaws make it less predictable (Janet Fitch Quotes) It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have (Janet Fitch Quotes) My hatred gives me strength (Janet Fitch Quotes) This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster (Janet Fitch Quotes) We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental (Janet Fitch Quotes) Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic (Janet Fitch Quotes) No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy (Janet Fitch Quotes) I felt suddenly cruel, like i´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed (Janet Fitch Quotes) The phoenix must burn to emerge (Janet Fitch Quotes) How many people ask you to come share their life? (Janet Fitch Quotes) A fish has no concept of water (Janet Fitch Quotes) I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand (Janet Fitch Quotes) No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California (Janet Fitch Quotes)

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