Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
dream novel
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
band remember
Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
mother hands water
I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
thinking oleanders cost
When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
love-is payment checks
Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.
eye dark boys
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?
thinking creating stories
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
two fire bird
If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.
oatmeal rocks boxes
The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
optimist
I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
senior teacher kids
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
suffering being-human humans
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
artist want what-you-want
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
handwriting computer terrible
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.