I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

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

I wanted to be taken out of myself.

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.

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.

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.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.