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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

“What comes before and after we know not.”

— Janette Turner Hospital

“I like to hope that there are more good people in the world than evil people' she said. 'I would like to…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

— Janette Turner Hospital

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on…

— Janette Turner Hospital

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to…

— Janette Turner Hospital

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and…

— Janette Turner Hospital

“FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS.”

— Janette Turner Hospital