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

- 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

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

- Janette Turner Hospital

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

- 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

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

- Janette Turner Hospital

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

- 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

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing mag…

- Janette Turner Hospital