"A curious thing happened: the terrains of England……" — Garry Disher
"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 wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it."
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9 Quotes by Garry Disher
Garry Disher has 9 quotes on this site.
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I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.
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I wanted to be taken out of myself.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and…
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in…
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a…
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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