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World Quotes by Janet Fitch

11 World quotes by Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch’s voice often lands on the human condition, and here she turns that lens toward the World. In just a handful of lines she captures the tension between personal stories and the larger stage, giving readers a quick yet resonant sense of her perspective.

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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

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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,…

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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your…

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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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I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work,…

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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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I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you…

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This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and…

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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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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will…

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I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle.…

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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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“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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