Janet Fitch Quotes
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I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.
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I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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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.
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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
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When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.
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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.
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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.
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Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
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I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.
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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. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
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As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
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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 started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
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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.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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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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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.
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For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
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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 an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
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I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.