KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Helen Garner Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Helen Garner

Showing 31-34 of 34 Quotes by Helen Garner

There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Helen Garner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

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

Jim Carrey Anne Frank Thomas Jefferson Thomas Merton Pablo Picasso Walter Scott Rabindranath Tagore Mark Zuckerberg

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

Dating Easter History Morning Nature Patience Politics Success