Quotes of Helen Garner - somelinesforyou

“ 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 selftorture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. ”

- Helen Garner

“ I remembered only the good and loveable things about him, not the wretchedness he caused me, and the dope, and the resentments and silence and the halfcrazy outbursts. I remembered his smell and the colour of his eyes and his head thrown back to laugh; these things were a second away, in time, but the others I dredged up dutifully, knowing that I must, for the sake of truth and sanity, try to keep a balance. ”

- Helen Garner
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