Negotiate Quotes by Janette Turner Hospital

“They whisper: no little man from Customs and Immigration stands at the doors of memory or imagination demanding to see your passport. No arts…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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…

— Janette Turner Hospital

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

“Cap notices the first red and gold leaves of the fall eddying on the surface of the lake. Do they make a pattern? Perhaps.…

— Janette Turner Hospital

“Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.”

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

“What's yer name?" he demanded. The girl searched for a name. "Stella," she said at last, because she had the stars at her fingertips…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

“From outer darkness to outer darkness, a feathered meteor through a moment of light...”

— Janette Turner Hospital

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…

— Janette Turner Hospital