Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
recreation solitary
My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.
inventive pound work
For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
bit dark hard music
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
time whether
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
lost-ones oysters white
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.
there-is-no-god ifs
And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
daughter mother home
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
hanging-on moments
This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.
lines way sometimes
Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
meals should good-meals
Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.