Quotes from Janet Fitch

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.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

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.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

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.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.