Janette Turner Hospital Quotes

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

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

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

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.

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

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

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