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> [To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/to-be-a-writer-you-must-be-a-reader-yet-as-many-as-30-per-cent-of-my/)

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## More by Garry Disher

> [At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/at-one-level-an-award-is-an-endorsement-a-confirmation-but-i-always/)

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> [I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/i-grew-up-in-a-house-full-of-books-and-we-belonged-to-the-country/)

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> [Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/delaying-and-withholding-tactics-red-herrings-partial-and-doubtful/)

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> [A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/a-good-writer-can-set-a-thriller-anywhere-and-make-it-convincing-the/)

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> [I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/i-have-no-favourite-genre-or-style-but-treat-each-novel-with-the-same/)

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> [“press charges. Meanwhile see what Angela Sullivan has to say for herself, find the house and have it forensically examined—that’s if it’s still standing.’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/press-charges-meanwhile-see-what-angela-sullivan-has-to-say-for/)

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> [To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/to-be-a-writer-you-must-be-a-reader-yet-as-many-as-30-per-cent-of-my/)

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> [“Peninsula Freeway, and another off Penzance Beach Road, which wound in a dizzying climb high above sea level. She slowed for an intersection, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/peninsula-freeway-and-another-off-penzance-beach-road-which-wound-in/)

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> [I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/i-didn-t-feel-that-there-was-much-goodness-in-me/)

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> [I wanted to be taken out of myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/i-wanted-to-be-taken-out-of-myself/)

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> [“He found her seated on her veranda steps, picking grass seeds out of a pair of old khaki army socks. About sixty, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/he-found-her-seated-on-her-veranda-steps-picking-grass-seeds-out-of-a/)

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> [“With his pinned-back ears and face suffused with strong, hard-to-read feelings, Bowie looked sleek and dangerous briefly, belying the neatness, the pampered hands.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/with-his-pinned-back-ears-and-face-suffused-with-strong-hard-to-read/)

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> [From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/from-my-years-of-teaching-creative-writing-i-know-that-new-writers/)

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> [A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/a-curious-thing-happened-the-terrains-of-england-began-to-impinge-on/)

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> [“Hirsch followed Erica Woodhead back to her mother-in-law’s house, learned that Audrey McRae knew nothing about any shotgun, said goodbye to Sergeant Brandl and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-disher/hirsch-followed-erica-woodhead-back-to-her-mother-in-law-s-house/)

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