Books Quotes by Janet Fitch

14 Books quotes by Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch shares a small but vivid set of ideas about reading, threading together her love of narrative and the quiet moments books books create. Fourteen lines give a gentle invitation to explore her literary sensibility.

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A book's flaws make it less predictable.

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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 novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

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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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I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them…

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I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring.…

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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…

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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured…

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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…

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“Mother prescribing her books like medicines. A good dose of Whitman would set me straight, like castor oil. But at least she…

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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…

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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's…

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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the…

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Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape…

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I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,…

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“That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be…

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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray…

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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw…

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“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.”

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“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”

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“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three…

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

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“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

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“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the…

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“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

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¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.…

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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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