KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Janette Turner Hospital Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Janette Turner Hospital

Showing 1-5 of 5 Quotes by 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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Janette Turner Hospital

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Janette Turner Hospital

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Janette Turner Hospital

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Janette Turner Hospital

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 12th, 1942

Links

Find Janette Turner Hospital on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Paulo Coelho
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Walter Scott
Leo Tolstoy

Popular Authors

Alexander Graham Bell Christopher Mccandless Claude Monet George S. Patton Albert Schweitzer John Steinbeck Charles R. Swindoll William Wordsworth

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Funny Government Home Memorial Day Money Time Wedding