I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. — Richard Flanagan Man Copy Share Image
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. — Richard Flanagan Divine Copy Share Image
There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details… — Richard Flanagan Camels Copy Share Image
“vessels with mini-subs and helicopters attached. As well as undertaking the more conventional” — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
“To die of old age...is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death. It is the last and extremist kind of dying. It encourages… — Richard Flanagan Death Copy Share Image
“I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history &… — Richard Flanagan Computers Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of… — Richard Flanagan Aborigines Copy Share Image
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my… — Richard Flanagan Age Copy Share Image
I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Character Copy Share Image
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence… — Richard Flanagan Aborigines Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Always wrong Copy Share Image
“threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Culture Copy Share Image
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
