Seven years ago, Janet Fitch's gorgeous White Oleander knocked Oprah's socks off. The author talks about imagination, the writing life and her new novel, Paint It Black.

"I first talked with Janet Fitch in 1999, the year I chose her debut novel, White Oleander, for my book club. Page after page, I fell in love with a story that deeply moved me, and vivid passages that described the sky as the color of peaches and compared sorrow to the taste of a copper penny." — Oprah