Janette Turner Hospital famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Doe #Action #Futility
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#People #Secret #Resilience
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Writing #Burning #Gaps
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Writing #Dark #Light
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Writing #Issues #Goes On
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Groups #Kind #Establishment
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Anchors #Feet #Space
Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Dream #Bird #Comes And Goes
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Two #Plot #Three
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Moving #Historical #Woven
The world is crammed with messages. Weâ€™ll never have time to read them all.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#World #Messages

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