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Janette Turner Hospital Books

Novelist

Janette Turner Hospital is a renowned Canadian novelist, born on November 12, 1942. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and portrayals of female characters.

Collected Stories

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North of Nowhere, South of Loss

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The Last Magician

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Book:The Last Magician

Source: The Last Magician

“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.”

Writing Enough Seems Issues Goes On

Author: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 magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.”

Writing Light Found Dark Dangerous Creation Goes On Tricks Mysterious Magician Absorbing Found You

Author: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 die.”

Writing Dies Burning Gaps Conception Execution Closing

Author: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 resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.”

People Stories Secret Novel Resilience Exploring Catastrophe

Author:Janette Turner Hospital

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

Kind Groups All Kinds Establishment

Author:Janette Turner Hospital

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

Doe Action Futility Failure To Act

Author: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 baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.”

Moving Left Novel Records Historical Sufficient Tragic Historian Thread Erotic Haunting Elusive Woven Enigmatic

Author: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.”

World Two Three Five Six Plot Hospitality Treadmills

Author:Janette Turner Hospital

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

Dream Bird Comes And Goes

Book:North of Nowhere, South of Loss

Source: North of Nowhere, South of Loss

“That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.”

Knows Way Space Secret Feet Bird Flight Mysterious Soil Barriers Shifting Anchors Homeland Reefs Pausing Mysterious Ways Kinfolk

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

About the Author

Born: November 12, 1942
Known for: Novelist
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