I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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?’ Janet Fitch Read Quote
L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It’s an active matrix; we’re all parts of it, but people don’t often stop to wonder what’s going on. Janet Fitch Read Quote
Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn’t suitable and you’re kind of breaking your rules, but he’s attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn’t even realize what a sacrifice you’re making by being with him and he dumps you! Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
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. Janet Fitch Read Quote
I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It’s just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you’re going to pay attention to them. Janet Fitch Read Quote
