21 Quotes by 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 writing. How not to drown.

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

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, or to this writer anyway.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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