All Helen Garner Quotes
- But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting… Absurd
- I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is… Exactly
- Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.… All
- 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… Calm
- I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to… Book
- It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. Able
- But there are some wounds that can never be healed. Art
- Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at… Arrive
- I like poking my nose into other people's lives. Inspirational
- But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be… Both
- At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. Development
- I think writers are very anxious. Anxious
- I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. Disturbed
- 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 youth. Age
- People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. Deliver
- That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. Book
- The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. Art
- We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we… Able
- Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because… Advance
- To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as… Baths
- The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and… Art
- Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique.… Baths
- I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around… Acts