In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We are all part of that global traffic and I think that the effort to make yourself understood and to be not… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Truly brave people accept that they may not see victory in their own lifetime. You just keep at it for the sake… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many… — Tim Winton Copy Share
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I… — Tim Winton Copy Share
Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water. — Tim Winton Copy Share
“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” — Tim Winton Copy Share
“Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life… — Tim Winton Copy Share
“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.” — Tim Winton Copy Share
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been.… — Tim Winton Copy Share
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and… — Tim Winton Copy Share
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury… — Tim Winton Copy Share
I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could… — Tim Winton Copy Share
There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the… — Tim Winton Copy Share
“Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he’d waste” — Tim Winton Copy Share
