Writer Quotes by Tim Winton

8 Writer quotes by Tim Winton

Tim Winton’s reflections on the writer’s place are short but resonant, echoing his deep connection to landscape and character. These eight quotes give a quick, atmospheric sense of how he sees the craft as a bridge to place and feeling.

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I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go…

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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…

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In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

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“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in…

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I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business…

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I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and…

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It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a…

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I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to…

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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

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“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…

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Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

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The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

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“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.”

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“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…

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“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.”

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“Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.”

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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.…

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Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and…

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The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…

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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…

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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…

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“Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he’d waste”

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