Advance Quote by Helen Garner

“Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.”

Helen Garner

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I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

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I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was…

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“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”

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