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I think writers are very anxious. Helen Garner

Think Writers Very Anxious

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. Helen Garner

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. Helen Garner

Me Admire Writer Most Malcolm Influenced

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. Helen Garner

Great Failure Obligation Invent About Something More Feel Massive Because Felt Australia Any Just Used Novels Things

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs. Helen Garner

Time Me Together Experience People Think Other Chunk Machine Runs See Some Object Something More Remembered Taking Make Up Stolen Stories Interesting Little Much Works Things

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. Helen Garner

Will Own My Own Never Perhaps Understand Passivity

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. Helen Reddy

Conversation Live Bathroom Paper Pen Had Come Sort Without Been Hand Up Anybody Children Fan Public Stall Serious Thing

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. Helen Reddy

Stage Leave Private Private Person Very Person

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. Helen Reddy

Music Generation Wealth Heard Being Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. Helen Reddy

Politics Me Please About Years Years Ago Questions Any Ask

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. Helen Reddy

Work Business Type Hack Weeks Outside Had Couple Department Department Store Whatsoever Store Anything Skills Show Show Business Even

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small. Helen Reddy

Ambition Think Back Small Marvel Were

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. Helen Reddy

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. Helen Reddy

Depression Time Concerned Just As Far As Far Waste Waste Of Time

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. Helen Reddy

Life Fear Thought My Life Flying Pieces Read Crap Biggest Ever

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it. Helen Reddy

Me You Made Would Had Until Said Forget

I am woman, hear me roar. Helen Reddy

Me Woman Roar Am Hear

The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. Henry Lawson

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. Henry Lawson

Future History Country State Despite Characteristics Promise Born More Advance Singularity Than Taught Children Interest Meanest Bred Europe

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