Author: Janis Ian

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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

- Janis Ian

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

- Janis Ian

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

- Janis Ian

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

- Janis Ian

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

- Janis Ian

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

- Janis Ian

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

- Janis Ian

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

- Janis Ian

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

- Janis Ian

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