513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

It’s the difference between a true artist and everybody else.” Claire sighed. “They can remake the world.

She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma – that repetition – maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.

I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do ’cause then at least I would’ve done what I wanted to do in life. What’s that worth?

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.

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn’t say.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean’t.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it’s the same thing.

They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled... mother’s big enough, wide enough for us to hide in... mother’s who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I’m really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.