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Helen Garner Quotes

Australian - Novelist | November 7, 1942 -

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

Women Violence Against Disturbed

I think writers are very anxious.

Think Anxious I Think Very Writers

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.

Myself People Book Think Doing You

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

People Nose Like Other Poking Lives

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

Never Wounds Some Healed

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.

Husband Think Doing Look Back Way

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

Time Me Society Development Going

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

Me Admire Writer Most Influenced

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Emotions Fantasy Places Mean Reason

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Mother Childhood Child Reading Think

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.

Best Me Grandchildren Living Bar

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.

Life Future Me Think My Life You

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