Janet Fitch Quotes

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

Janet Fitch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1955

Topics

LoveFearPeopleStoryBetterMore

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan

PeopleMeWinningTalkingLookOver

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Jim Mattis

FightReadingYouDownEnemyDone

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Jean Racine

WantNothingEverythingStillAm

President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.

Robert Dallek

RealityCongressPresidentTalkBig

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Rosamund Pike

YouHorrorBeliefTransparentKeep

I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me.

Judy Blume

MeBelieveYouArtistKnowForget

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

Jay-Z

RideBikeMeShortReachUncle

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

RealityTheoryMustTempered

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

Jonathan Krisel

LifeWorkPeopleIdeasSucceedYou

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.

Susan Glaspell

PeopleMeBookRememberWonderWhy

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

Shereen El Feki

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If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

Sevyn Streeter

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