Janet Fitch Quotes
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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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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 write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
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I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.