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 a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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…
- 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 curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window…
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…
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.
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.
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 …
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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