Quotes By Author: helen garner
“I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.”
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“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.”