Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There’s the threat of the loss of approval. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There’s texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I’m a great believer in reading aloud. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
It’s a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don’t write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I’d like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future – and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled. Janet Fitch Read Quote
