"From my years of teaching creative writing, I……" — 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 action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment."
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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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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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