Helen Garner Quotes

Helen Garner — Australian Novelist born on November 07, 1942,

Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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