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
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You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.
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While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.
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Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
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My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
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When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
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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.
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I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
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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.
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I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
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I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
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If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.
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I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.
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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.