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Helen Garner

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

— Helen Garner nature

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

— Helen Garner

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

— Helen Garner people

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

— Helen Garner women

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

— Helen Garner writing

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

— Helen Garner hope

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 art

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

— Helen Garner love

I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

— Helen Garner life

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

— Helen Garner life

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 man

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 hate

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

— Helen Garner man

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 life

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

— Helen Garner people

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

— Helen Garner people

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

— Helen Garner work

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

— Helen Garner life

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

— Helen Garner time

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

— Helen Garner believe

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

— Helen Garner will

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner writers

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

— Helen Garner writer

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

— Helen Garner hope

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

— Helen Garner teaching

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