Janet Fitch Quotes

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

Janet Fitch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Jim Jarmusch

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I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

John Cho

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Art is spiritual.

John Cusack

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In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

John Wayne

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I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Stanley B. Prusiner

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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

Robin Williams

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It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

Robert Towne

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Generally, I snack on lots of fresh fruit and raw nuts, such as almonds.

Mary Helen Bowers

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In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

Deepak Chopra

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In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

Chris Borland

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I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.

Colin Morgan

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No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

Bryan Batt

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