Author: Helen Garner

Quotes

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

- Helen Garner

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

- Helen Garner

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

- Helen Garner

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

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

- Helen Garner

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

- Helen Garner

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

- Helen Garner

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

- Helen Garner

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