Janet Fitch Quotes

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.

Janet Fitch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StyleWordsWritingStrongSomeone

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Amity Shlaes

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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

OpportunityHeartEyesSoulEmpathy

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

RM

WalkMountainYouDownFastBubble

Doubts may happen. But if you surround yourself with like-minded people who believe in you and who you believe in, and you have faith, all will be well.

Luke James

FaithYourselfSurround YourselfYou

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

SchoolHigh SchoolThoughtHoodBoy

I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

LiveSurviveAmericanWalkingDoing

There's an ethical dimension to my life and all of our lives, from the time we get up in the morning to the time we sleep, including what we sleep on. So I don't separate my choices from ethical choices at any time.

Dennis Kucinich

LifeMorningTimeSleepChoicesUp

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Antony Gormley

FeelMisunderstoodI FeelTerribly

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

Allison Anders

MoneyWorldDoingMoviesHireFilm

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'

William Sanderson

TeacherBestEgoYouSaidWill

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Phil McGraw

MyselfBestRideI AmPresentHorse

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Penn Jillette

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