Bookmarks

A lovely set of five book marks has been produced for the Janet Frame House at 56 Eden Street Oamaru, thanks to funding from the Real NZ Festival.

More information can be obtained from the Eden Street Trust's website here.

Each bookmark has a quote from Janet Frame and a photograph of the house or surroundings.

The quotes are:

In my family words were revered as instruments of magic
~ Landfall essay 'Beginnings' (1965)

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination
~ The Envoy from Mirror City (1984)

Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility. 
~ Towards Another Summer (written 1963; published 2007)

There is no past present or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. 
~ Faces in the Water (1961)

I wanted an imagination that would inhabit a world of fact, descend like a shining light upon the ordinary life of Eden Street. 
~ To the Is-land (1982)