What is real is always worth it. Janet Fitch More Quotes by Janet Fitch More Quotes From Janet Fitch A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint. Janet Fitch coins too-much language Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. Janet Fitch self writing book I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. Janet Fitch girl mother running A cliche is everything you've ever heard of. Janet Fitch cliche heard What happened to a dream without a dreamer? Janet Fitch dreamer happened dream The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing. Janet Fitch missing stories Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink. Janet Fitch dawn darkness water I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated. Janet Fitch used complicated beautiful A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it Janet Fitch beautiful way needs Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed. Janet Fitch writing numbers people Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this. Janet Fitch emotional character looks The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath. Janet Fitch smell laughter night A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it. Janet Fitch stories moving thinking 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. Janet Fitch artist self mean You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you Janet Fitch daughter mother home There is no God, there is only what you want. Janet Fitch there-is-no-god what-you-want want And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing. Janet Fitch there-is-no-god ifs Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash. Janet Fitch hangover wake-up dream She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after. Janet Fitch notebook writing night She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me. Janet Fitch confused coffee hair
