“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.” — Megan Jacobson Copy Share Image
“She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“love, real love, comes with three conditions - respect, kindness and trust. It isn't, and should never be, unconditional.” — Megan Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that… — Megan Jacobson Copy Share Image
“I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted,… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the… — Colin Thiele Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the… — A.B. Paterson Copy Share Image
“I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Dr Piper smiled hugely like a big cherub. 'Of course it's wonderful. The whole world is wonderful. Everything is made to fit… — Colin Thiele Copy Share Image
“here is nothing to see, however, and not a soul to meet. You might walk for twenty miles along this track without… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
“My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said; Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes… — Douglas Alexander Stewart Copy Share Image
“His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us… — George Williamson Copy Share Image
“In Europe, the dimensions of physical space seemed compressed. The looming vertical presence of mountains cut me off from the horizon. I'd… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of… — Colin Thiele Copy Share Image
“In a seedy cinema on ru du Temple, watching Disney's Peter Pan with my son, I found that although we were all… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they're the only reason she's still even… — Steph Bowe Copy Share Image
“He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick… — A.B. Paterson Copy Share Image
