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> [Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/writers-seem-to-me-to-be-people-who-need-to-retire-from-social-life/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

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## More by Helen Garner

> [Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/tentatively-i-stood-a-great-lump-of-wood-on-the-chopping-block-and/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/to-slide-into-the-domed-reading-room-at-ten-each-morning-specially-in/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [“But I’ve been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir’s mother dying of cancer – it’s just brilliant. It really helped me.’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/but-i-ve-been-reading-a-very-easy-death-about-simone-de-beauvoir-s/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/the-two-big-cities-of-australia-are-tonally-as-distinct-from-each/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/it-s-much-more-interesting-for-me-to-think-that-taking-a-chunk-of/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/on-melbourne-summer-mornings-the-green-trams-go-rolling-in-stately/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/it-s-disturbing-at-my-age-to-look-at-a-young-woman-s-destructive/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/i-m-very-disturbed-by-violence-against-women-when-it-is-violence/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/i-just-my-childhood-seems-when-i-look-back-to-be-largely-composed-of/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/i-m-full-of-restlessness-not-lonely-exactly-my-head-is-racing-with/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [“I realised I had a stream of thoughts about him which ran for the most part below conscious level. I noticed jets spurting up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/i-realised-i-had-a-stream-of-thoughts-about-him-which-ran-for-the/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/it-was-early-summer-and-everything-as-it-always-does-began-to-heave/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/maybe-this-is-pathetic-but-i-still-dread-producing-a-book-that-doesn/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/at-the-time-it-seemed-like-a-natural-development-of-my-interest-in/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

> [Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/courts-are-supposed-to-be-places-of-reason-but-this-of-course-is-a/)

[Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/)

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