Top 64 Quotes by Janet Fitch

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.