Garry Disher Quotes

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

Garry Disher

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ChildrenStyleImaginationGrace

You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.

Jeremy Lloyd

LaughYouSayNeverWriteReason

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Robert Pinsky

AmbitionBasketballGameLearnEnjoy

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

Rob Woodall

AccountabilityMoreStateThanMuch

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Joseph Brodsky

BluePoetryFarmerDangerousCrowd

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem

MePathsFindFeelingsOnlyAccess

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

Bozoma Saint John

PeopleMeGrowing UpBrandPowerful

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

Piet Mondrian

CultureSeeAbstractRepresentation

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward

AlwaysSomethingFrenchFishyAbout

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

Lindsey Graham

RememberPartyWantRepublicanOur

I want to be as healthy as I possibly can be. I just want to make sure that I do everything to take care of myself. Like they say, charity begins at home. Love begins at home, too. So I want to do the best for me. I want to pamper myself and do the best for my body.

Kriti Kharbanda

LoveHomeMyselfBestMeCharity

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Julian Baggini

LifeGoodQuestionsGood LifeValues

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

Julian Barratt

IdeasBackGoSometimesTryOut

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