Quotes from Janet Fitch

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

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.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

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.

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.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

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.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.