Best Richard Flanagan Quotes
- I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Believe
- I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me. Incessantly
- What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their… Authority
- In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. Admire
- We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. Dramatic
- A writer should never mark the page with their own tears. Mark
- A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. Failure
- I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. Big
- I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would… All
- The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so… Abbott
- The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt… Any
- My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in… Built
- Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. Demonstrate
- War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And… Any
- Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading… Admittedly
- Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. All
- We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and… Apprehend
- I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it… All
- The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. Bradshaws
- Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what… Age
- The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success. Australian
- Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable… Advanced
- A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. Abandon
- It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. Australia
- Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. Among
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