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• ‟ Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

  - Helen Garner
  

• ‟ Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

  - Helen Garner
  

• ‟ Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

  - Helen Garner
  

• ‟ It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

  - Helen Garner
  

• ‟ I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

  - Helen Garner