Writer Quotes by Janet Fitch

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

— Janet Fitch

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting…

— Janet Fitch

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written,…

— Janet Fitch

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…

— Janet Fitch

When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

— Janet Fitch

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

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…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.…

— Janet Fitch

Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be…

— Janet Fitch

Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure.…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

— Janet Fitch