A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… - Garry Disher
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window…
- Garry Disher
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or uns… - Garry Disher
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or uns…
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is… - Garry Disher
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is…
I wanted to be taken out of myself. - Garry Disher
I wanted to be taken out of myself.
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garr… - Garry Disher
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garr…
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by … - Garry Disher
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by …
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. - Garry Disher
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. - Garry Disher
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me. - Garry Disher
I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.
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