Janet Fitch quotes

Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people. (Janet Fitch)
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.
Janet Fitch
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
Janet Fitch
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
Janet Fitch
She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.
Janet Fitch
without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.
Janet Fitch
There is no God, there is only what you want.
Janet Fitch
A fish has no concept of water.
Janet Fitch
Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.
Janet Fitch
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. (Janet Fitch)
Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
Janet Fitch
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
Janet Fitch
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
Janet Fitch
Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
Janet Fitch
Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
Janet Fitch
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
Janet Fitch
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.
Janet Fitch
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
Janet Fitch
Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.
Janet Fitch
My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. (Janet Fitch)
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
Janet Fitch
But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
Janet Fitch
If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
Janet Fitch
Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
Janet Fitch