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Janet Fitch Quotes

American - Author | November 9, 1955 -

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

Work Home Energy Think You Play

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

People Writing Reading Think Mission

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

Life My Life Optimist Been Depressed

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

You Artist Want Never Get

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

Book Flaws Make Predictable Less

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.

Father Great World Engineer Readers

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Out Stories Getting Sending Rejected

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

History Literature Major Had Studied

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

Work Yourself People Deep Feel You

It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

Building You Down Flaws Go Naked

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.

Style Words Writing Strong Someone

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

Children Society Care Take Care Left

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