Janet Fitch Quotes

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.

I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?’ ‘Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -‘ ‘Someone you used to know?’ Alec interjected skeptically. ‘Someone I used to be.

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.