Garry Disher famous quotes

03-28-2025

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library windowâ€¦ I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
-- Garry Disher

#True Life #Library #World
I didnâ€™t feel that there was much goodness in me.
-- Garry Disher

#Goodness #Feels
I wanted to be taken out of myself.
-- Garry Disher

#Taken #Wanted
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.
-- Garry Disher

#Way #Crime #Tricks
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
-- Garry Disher

#Awards #Levels #Confirmation
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
-- Garry Disher

#Country #Book #House
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.
-- Garry Disher

#Teaching #Writing #Years
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
-- Garry Disher

#Red #Fiction #Tactics
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
-- Garry Disher

#Writing #Students #Reader
I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.
-- Garry Disher

#Goodness #Feels

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