In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan Australia Copy Share Image
“He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. But” — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. — Richard Flanagan Business Copy Share Image
You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan Day Copy Share Image
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Admittedly Copy Share Image
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations… — Richard Flanagan Aboriginal Copy Share Image
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men… — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to… — Richard Flanagan Death Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed… — Richard Flanagan Darwinism Copy Share Image
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately… — Richard Flanagan Destruction Copy Share Image
Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Agony Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Acceptance Copy Share Image
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does… — Richard Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind… — Richard Flanagan Europeans Copy Share Image
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human?… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my… — Richard Flanagan Age Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Character Copy Share Image
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of… — Richard Flanagan Aborigines Copy Share Image
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
