You just couldn’t be too perfectionistic about it.” But the creativity of her work, the lines that take the reader’s breath away and makes them want to read more, were hard-won. What do you ask a kid who caught a big fish? “What kind of bait were you using? Where’d you catch it? What time of day was it?” I learned they could always write. Someone would call me up and say, “My kid just caught a big fish, come over and take a picture of it.” “So you’d go take a picture of a fish and then interview the kid. “When I had the newspaper, I had to come up with 12 or 15 stories a week regardless of where there was anything to write about.
It’s just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you’re going to pay attention to them.” Her journalistic involvement proved a vaccination against writer’s block. “I write all the time, whether I like it or not, I never get inspired unless I’m already writing. She has three novels Kicks, White Oleander, and Paint It Black.
Some of her favorite authors include Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Of course, my conception of being a writer has to wear a cape and have Adventures.” She’s a faculty member in the Master of Professional Writing Program, where she teaches fiction. “I wanted to live, not spend my life in a library. When she won a student exchange at Keele University in England, she awoke in the middle of the night and realized she would rather write fiction novels. She was attracted to its powerful narratives, range of events, enormous personalities, and the effectiveness and depth of it’s themes. She was an undergraduate at Reed College and decided to become a historian.
Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of insatiable readers.
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