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.
Janette Turner HospitalThere is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
Janette Turner HospitalI 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 HospitalThat 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.
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