Garry Disher Quotes

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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 was…
• I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.
• I wanted to be taken out of myself.
• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another…
• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it…
• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action,…
• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send…
• To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

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