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
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Love is public,... or it’s not love. Love is shared with others or it dies.” — Richard Flanagan Love Copy Share Image
Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. — Richard Flanagan Australia Copy Share Image
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations… — Richard Flanagan Aboriginal Copy Share Image
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that… — Richard Flanagan Devil 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
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated… — Richard Flanagan Ageing Copy Share Image
“He felt more soft raindrops, saw bright-red oil against the brown mud, heard his mother calling again, but it was unclear what… — Richard Flanagan Mother Copy Share Image
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. But” — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. — Richard Flanagan Business Copy Share Image
You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan Day Copy Share Image
“Days and months are travellers of eternity. So too the years that pass by” — Richard Flanagan Eternity Copy Share Image
In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan Australia Copy Share Image
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time. — Richard Flanagan Circular Copy Share Image
Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money. — Richard Flanagan Art Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan Art Copy Share Image
There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing… — Richard Flanagan Crisis Copy Share Image
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath. — Richard Flanagan Bad breath Copy Share Image
“for a moment he wondered:what if this had all been a mask for the most terrible evil? The idea was too horrific… — Richard Flanagan Evil Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Beauty Copy Share Image
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan Fictions Copy Share Image
