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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

~Janet Fitch

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As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

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A book's flaws make it less predictable.

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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.

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I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

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As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

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Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

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A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 9th, 1955

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