I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night. Janet Fitch boulevardcolordrive Change image and share on social
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. Janet Fitch expectlotscene Change image and share on social
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. Janet Fitch deskfashionhouse Change image and share on social
I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport. Janet Fitch airportassigndespise Change image and share on social
My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that. Janet Fitch angstcrimedostoevsky Change image and share on social
Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you! Janet Fitch attractivebreakdump share on social
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing. Janet Fitch feelinspiretime Change image and share on social
While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm. Janet Fitch badlandculturalcuriously Change image and share on social
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house. Janet Fitch anymoreblockfragment Change image and share on social
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal. Janet Fitch abstractionhardpersonal Change image and share on social