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Janette Turner Hospital Quotes
Janette Turner Hospital Quotes
Janette Turner Hospital
Australian
Novelist
Born:
Nov 12
,
1942
Art
How
Me
Time
World
You
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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.
Janette Turner Hospital
Ride
World
Three
Plots
Only
Like
Most
Five
Six
Them
Inherit
Two
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
Janette Turner Hospital
Kinds
Establishment
Literary
Groups
All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
Janette Turner Hospital
Writing
Dark
Matter
Negotiate
About
How
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Career
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
People
Secret
Extremely
Negotiate
Catastrophe
Because
Always
How
Am
Stories
The Secret Of
Interested
Exploring
Novels
Resilience
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
Work
Art
Time
Me
You
Writing
Words
Miracle
Miraculous
Mysterious
Remains
Writer
Idea
Another
Surprises
Want
Happens
Anyway
Convert
Then
Create
Act
Thing
Start
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