Best quotes by Janet Fitch on World

Checkout quotes by Janet Fitch on World

• ‟ My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

  - Janet Fitch
  

• ‟ Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

  - Janet Fitch
  

• ‟ My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

  - Janet Fitch
  

• ‟ Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

  - 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
  

• ‟ When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

  - Janet Fitch