Quotes About Janet Fitch

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

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

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

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

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

My mother was not herself in the time of the Santa Anas. I was twelve years old and I was afraid for her.

Never let a man stay the night. Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

That was Ingrid Magnussen. She made up rules and suddenly they were engraved on the Rosetta Stone, they'd been brought to the surface from a cave under the Dead Sea, they were inscribed on scrolls from the T'ang Dynasty.

On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.

and window, put the plastic Frosty the Snowman on the blacktop, wired up the

Her violence. Claire, what did you know about violence? My mother's strength? Well she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.