American - Author | November 9, 1955 -
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
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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.
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You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.
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I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
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A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
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