"Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and……" — Garry Disher
"Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers."
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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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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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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 Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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