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Janet Fitch is a renowned American contemporary author, born on November 9, 1955, in California. Her works are known for their profound character development and unique narrative style, with notable titles including 'The Geeks' and 'Paint It Black'.

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“We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.”

Way Should Past Cooking Smell Meat Kitchen Chef Old Fashioned Stairs Polished Brass Stew Chefs Cooking

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.”

People Thinking World Way Stills Culture Enjoy Sound Environment Car Color Smell Senses Our World Gray Primitive Crave Richness Garage Cubicles

Author:Janet Fitch

“When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.”

Want Feels Smell

Author:Janet Fitch

“It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.”

“I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.”

Knows Feels Matter Wanted Song Secret Wind West Smell California Midnight Compass Loving Someone Humming

Author:Janet Fitch

“...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.”

Men Years Mind Made Left Rooms Security Changed Standing Tired Smell Beer Gates Fifteen Emergencies Whiskey Doorways Fifteen Years Christmas Eve Emergency Room Fifteen Years Old

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.”

Night Sound Laughter Smell Milk Baths Sap Blooming Sticky Jasmine

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.”

Hair Taste Mouths Skins Hot Smell Coffee Confused Overwhelmed Unwilling

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.”

World Writing Looks Light Sound Five Media Smell Senses Weather Features Visuals Texture Good Writers Five Senses

Author:Janet Fitch

“I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.”

Dark Female Smell Scent Perfume Find Me Stink

Author:Janet Fitch

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Born: November 9, 1955
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