"A good writer can set a thriller anywhere……" — 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 it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader."
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9 Quotes by Garry Disher
Garry Disher has 9 quotes on this site.
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A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside…
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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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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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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month…
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students…
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More Anywhere Quotes
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
— Fred Armisen
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
— Russell Baker
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
— Alec Baldwin
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
— John Barrymore
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
— Tony Blair
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
— Mary J. Blige
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