Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.
From Helen Garner
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
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.
I think writers are 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.
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