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.
sending
I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.
fond los turns
I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
depths naked public
It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.