5 Quotes & Sayings By Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart was born in Sydney, Australia. She graduated from Sydney University with a degree in English literature. Her first novel, The Horsemen, was published in 1987 and won critical acclaim. Since then she has been published in more than twenty languages and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Literature.

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Art is a kind of mining, " he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. Jane Urquhart
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I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it. Jane Urquhart
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When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wild spell of the remembered interlude is lost altogether and the memory of sadness claims its rightful place in the mind? And what is it we expect from the sun-drenched past? There is no formula for re-entry, nothing we can do to enable reconstruction. Jane Urquhart
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Someday, " Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond. Jane Urquhart