Quote 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…

— Garry Disher

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would…

— Garry Disher

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

— Garry Disher

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…

— Garry Disher

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…

— Garry Disher

“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.’…

— Garry Disher

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

“Peninsula Freeway, and another off Penzance Beach Road, which wound in a dizzying climb high above sea level. She slowed for an intersection, the…

— Garry Disher

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

— Garry Disher

I wanted to be taken out of myself.

— Garry Disher

“He found her seated on her veranda steps, picking grass seeds out of a pair of old khaki army socks. About sixty, with the…

— Garry Disher

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the…

— Garry Disher