Janet Fitch Quotes

Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.

~ Janet Fitch

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

~ Janet Fitch

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

~ Janet Fitch

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

~ Janet Fitch

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

~ Janet Fitch

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

~ Janet Fitch

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

~ Janet Fitch

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

~ Janet Fitch

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

~ Janet Fitch

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

~ Janet Fitch