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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.

~ Garry Disher

Anywhere Convincing Crime Evoke Good Good Writer Highlights Make Reader Set Setting Such A Way Thriller Trick Way Writer

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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 Garry Disher had earned them.

~ Garry Disher

Always Another Award Awards Confirmation Earned Endorsement Find Good Had Level Looking Myself Reviews Them Though

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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.

~ Garry Disher

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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

~ Garry Disher

Crime Doubtful Fiction Fiction Writers Outcomes Partial Red Stock Tactics Trade Writers

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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.

~ Garry Disher

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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 train.

~ Garry Disher

Belonged Books Country Each Full Grew House Lending Library Month Parcel Send Service State Train Up Us Would

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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

Care Children Craftsmanship Crime Difficult Each Favourite Genre Grace Imagination Literary Novel Same Style Touch Treat Write

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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

Cent Many Must Per Reader Readers Students Were Writer Writing You

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