My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans. -Janet Fitch Food
A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. -Janet Fitch Anger
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. -Janet Fitch Poetry
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college. -Janet Fitch Teacher
