I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me. — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
“Because not to fear was to imagine a world beyond experience. And that was too much for anybody.” — Richard Flanagan Experience Copy Share Image
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan Aboriginal Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself. — Richard Flanagan Being Copy Share Image
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men… — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only… — Richard Flanagan Australian Copy Share Image
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching… — Richard Flanagan Australia Copy Share Image
“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through… — Richard Flanagan Family Copy Share Image
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in… — Richard Flanagan Childhood Copy Share Image
“It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Because in the end history—like the Berlin Wall—shapes people, had shaped her, but would not in the end determine her, because in… — Richard Flanagan Berlin wall Copy Share Image
“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private… — Richard Flanagan Life Copy Share Image
“Her eyes burnt like the blue in a gas flame. They were ferocious things. For some moments her eyes were all he… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything.… — Richard Flanagan Evil Copy Share Image
What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Celebrities Copy Share Image
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Imperial Copy Share Image
The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are. — Richard Flanagan Monsters Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing… — Richard Flanagan Beautiful Copy Share Image
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan Australia Copy Share Image
