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 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
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does… — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Acceptance Copy Share Image
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind… — Richard Flanagan Europeans Copy Share Image
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human?… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to… — Richard Flanagan Death Copy Share Image
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed… — Richard Flanagan Darwinism Copy Share Image
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately… — Richard Flanagan Destruction Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Agony Copy Share Image
