--- title: "3 Gerald Murnane Quotes - Famous Novelist" description: "Contemporary Australian novelist (born 1939)... | Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. He has won acclaim fo..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/gerald-murnane-77184_quote_they-supposed-that-their-tinted-papers-s_931157.jpg" --- # Gerald Murnane (1939) Novelist **3** quotes in **2** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Gerald Murnane is a novelist. ## Quick Facts About Gerald Murnane Born February 25, 1939 Profession Novelist ## About Gerald Murnane Contemporary Australian novelist (born 1939)... \| Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. He has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, perception, identity and the Australian landscape, often blurring fiction and autobiography in the process. Murnane has published 14 books between ## Quotes by Gerald Murnane > [“They supposed that their tinted papers showed something of what a man saw apart from himself--something they called the visible world. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-murnane/they-supposed-that-their-tinted-papers-showed-something-of-what-a-man/) [Gerald Murnane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-murnane/) [Visible World](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/visible-world-293404/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/gerald-murnane-77184_quote_they-supposed-that-their-tinted-papers-s_931157.jpg) > [“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-murnane/during-my-sixteen-years-as-a-teacher-of-writing-i-removed-many/) [Gerald Murnane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-murnane/) [Long ago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-ago/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c6/gerald-murnane-77184_long-ago_during-my-sixteen-years-as-a-teacher-of_1216784.jpg) > [“Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-murnane/soon-after-i-left-university-i-came-up-with-another-definition-of-a/) [Gerald Murnane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-murnane/) [Critic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/618/gerald-murnane-77184_quote_soon-after-i-left-university-i-came-up-w_1574466.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-murnane/#itemlist", "name": "Gerald Murnane Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They supposed that their tinted papers showed something of what a man saw apart from himself--something they called the visible world. 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