Born: 1942-11-12
Profession: Novelist
Nation: Australian
Biography of Janette Turner Hospital
All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
Tags: Career, Human, WritingThere are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
Tags: Groups, Kinds, LiteraryWe inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
Tags: Five, Six, ThreeI 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.
Tags: Interested, Secret, StoriesThe 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.
Tags: Art, Time, Work