KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Helen Garner Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Helen Garner

Showing 11-20 of 34 Quotes by Helen Garner

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

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think writers are very anxious.

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 7th, 1942

Links

Find Helen Garner on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Paulo Coelho
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Walter Scott
Leo Tolstoy

Popular Authors

Galileo Galilei Khalil Gibran Robert Kennedy Stephen King Paul Mccartney Edgar Allan Poe John D. Rockefeller Mary Wollstonecraft

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Graduation Health Home Legal Marriage Motivational Peace Trust