I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We are all part of that global traffic and I think that the effort to make yourself understood and to be not… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“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… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
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.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
