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As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
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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 just wanted to live in books and in movies.
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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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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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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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While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.
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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.
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A book's flaws make it less predictable.
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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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I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
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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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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
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Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
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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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My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
Janet Fitch