Janet Fitch Quotes & Sayings

“Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.”

“As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.”

“Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.”

“My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'”

“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.”

“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.”

“As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.”

“I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.”

“My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.”

“A book's flaws make it less predictable.”