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 FitchWhen I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
Janet FitchOnce you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
Janet FitchThe 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. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Donโt. This is your protagonist, not your kid.
Janet Fitch