Janette Turner Hospital Quotes

• The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

  Hospital Janette Turner

  Doe, Action, Futility

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• The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

  Hospital Janette Turner

  World, Messages

  Janette Turner Hospital (1992). “The Last Magician”

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• 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.

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  Writing, Dark, Light

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• 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.

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  People, Secret, Resilience

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• We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

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  Two, Plot, Three

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• Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

  Hospital Janette Turner

  Dream, Bird, Comes And Goes

  Janette Turner Hospital (2003). “North of Nowhere, South of Loss”, p.129, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• 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.

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  Writing, Issues, Goes On

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• There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

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  Writing, Burning, Gaps

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• There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

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  Groups, Kind, Establishment

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• Ahí es donde está la patria. En ese espacio cambiante, los parientes se conocen por señas secretas y, allí donde se encuentran, el suelo patrio se aglutina a sus pies de la misteriosa forma en que los cayos de coral, como aves marinas que detienen su vuelo, se anclan a la Barrera de Coral.

  Hospital Janette Turner

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• 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.

  Hospital Janette Turner

  Moving, Erotic, Historical

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