American - Author | November 9, 1955 -
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
Janet Fitch
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My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
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My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
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The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.
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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.
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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.
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I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
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I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
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As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
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Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
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