Janet Fitch Quotes
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As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
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Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
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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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My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
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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.
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I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
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My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
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A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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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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Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.