As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I’d like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future – and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled. – Janet Fitch
I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It’s just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you’re going to pay attention to them. – Janet Fitch
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I’m already writing. – Janet Fitch
I write every day… I never get ideas unless I’m actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don’t do me any good. – Janet Fitch
I’d rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it’s not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in. – Janet Fitch
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. – Janet Fitch
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. – Janet Fitch
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky. – Janet Fitch
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be. – Janet Fitch
The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there’s weather, there’s texture, there’s light. – Janet Fitch
I’m particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night. – Janet Fitch
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don’t even know what’s going on with me until I’m writing. That doesn’t mean my books are autobiographical. – Janet Fitch
When you’re a little kid, you are small, your life is small – and you’re terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder. – Janet Fitch
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I’ve waited all my life for the computer. – Janet Fitch
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn’t want to spend my life in the library. – Janet Fitch
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. – Janet Fitch
