#hi

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. ↗

— Helen Garner

#began #easily #fall #fell #fulfilment

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. ↗

— Helen Garner

#demand #justice #lot #people #system

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. ↗

— Helen Garner

#dignity #hope #i #i hope that #joe

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#baseball #enough #five #games #get

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

#advance #because #crossroads #enough #established

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

#almost #calm #happened #life #lot

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan. ↗

— Jay Garner

#building #day #i #i think #plan

And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#dave #dave matthews #everything #first #home

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#commit #either #give #hide #scene