Top 64 Quotes by Janet Fitch

About Janet Fitch

These are some quotes by American author Janet Fitch Author, who was born on November 9, 1955.

A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

Janet Fitch

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

Janet Fitch

I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.

I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.

Janet Fitch

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

Janet Fitch

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.

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

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Janet Fitch

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Janet Fitch

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Janet Fitch

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Janet Fitch

I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.

I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.

Janet Fitch

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