Quotes by Janette Turner Hospital

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Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina).
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The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, o...

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

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

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All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameJanette Turner Hospital
  • DescriptionContemporary Australian writer and academic
  • BornNovember 12, 1942
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsPatrick White Award