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Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me. Freya Tingley

Me Creative Whatever Outlet Picking Always Up Ended Going Choosing Creative Outlet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told. Garth Davis

Work Myself Character World Made Way Immerse Could Like Ideas How Lot Get Then Film Lives

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me. Garth Davis

Me Job Responsibility Social Social Responsibility Filmmaking

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone. Garth Davis

People Sometimes Films Our Our People Reach Make Just Anyone

There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books. Garth Nix

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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books. Garth Nix

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia. Garth Nix

Work Writing Jobs Various Studied Until Editorial Rep Sales Up Australia Ended Screenwriting Then Publicist Actually University

I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.' Garth Nix

Love Time Smart Old Though Favorites Like Lot Up Get Childhood Reruns Who Series Keep Ever Hardly Dr Watch

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child. Garth Nix

Myself Me Words Remember Thinking Books Way Would Write Like Beyond Liked Audience Always Got How Child Page Imagining

With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind. Garth Nix

Myself Old Mind Half Older Trilogy Kingdom Rather Adult Particular Wrote Readers Audience Least Were Than Them Younger

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. Garth Nix

Strong Try Books Underlying Realism Fantastic Element

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line. Garth Nix

Love Myself Good Book People Will Down More Only Write Along Talk Line Years Five Goes Maybe Good Book Helped

Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions. Garth Nix

Members Sophisticated Most Audience Questions Often Younger Ask Interestingly Who

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role. Gemma Ward

You Know Another Model Role Certain Actor Play

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