Janet Fitch Quotes

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

For me, writing is just processing.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

We write to make sense of it all.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind