Janette Turner Hospital Quotes

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

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#2. Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. 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.

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

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#6. So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

Peter Andre

#7. 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.

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

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#9. All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

Amelia Warner

#13. Kids have awkward moments.

Kenan Thompson

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

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

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#16. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

Keith L. Moore

#17. 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.

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

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#19. He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

Armistead Maupin

#20. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

#21. 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.

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