--- title: "1 Cosmopolitan Quotes By Tim Winton" description: "1 Cosmopolitan quotes by Tim Winton. Plus more from Tim Winton and more Cosmopolitan sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/tim-winton-3739_australia_for-a-while-australians-were-desperately_1922457.png" --- > [For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia, with Australian landscapes and colours. My work has always had bits of Western Australia in it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/for-a-while-australians-were-desperately-trying-to-be-cosmopolitan-i/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/tim-winton-3739_australia_for-a-while-australians-were-desperately_1922457.png) ## Other authors on Cosmopolitan ## More by Tim Winton > [Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/wherever-i-went-i-felt-like-the-last-person-awake-in-a-room-full-of/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/where-i-had-expected-to-appreciate-the-monuments-and-love-the-natural/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/i-ve-been-a-writer-and-a-parent-since-adolescence-it-feels-like-and-i/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/surviving-is-the-strongest-memory-i-have-the-sense-of-having-walked/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [The end of the world begins in the sea we love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/the-end-of-the-world-begins-in-the-sea-we-love/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/few-landscapes-have-been-so-deeply-known-and-fewer-still-have-been-so/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/life-was-something-you-didn-t-argue-with-because-when-it-came-down-to/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/shit-he-said-as-a-great-green-glut-of-water-poured-up-at-our-feet-i/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/keep-the-day-ahead-of-you-that-s-what-the-old-man-used-to-say/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/i-guess-it-must-be-a-time-of-life-thing-looking-back-and-trying-to/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/will-you-look-at-us-by-the-river-the-whole-restless-mob-of-us-on/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/the-night-is-full-of-stories-they-float-up-like-miasmas-as-though-the/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/i-grew-up-in-a-whaling-town-we-didn-t-stop-whaling-in-australia-until/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/there-is-nowhere-else-i-d-rather-be-nothing-else-i-would-prefer-to-be/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) > [“Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he’d waste”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/rare-as-rocking-horse-turds-these-days-feeling-halfway-to-decent-with/) [Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cosmopolitan/tim-winton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Cosmopolitan Quotes By Tim Winton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. 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