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
men firsts oleanders
Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
rocks want oleanders
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
artist oleanders
I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
sensual balance oleanders
We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
wind oleanders lovers
Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.
thinking oleanders cost
When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
wish oleanders broke
I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
oleanders way want
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
self height oleanders
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
oleanders want natural
It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
life realized spend
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
associate carol editor joyce send
I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
los
Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
body reader smell vivid
The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.