I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience… — Richard Flanagan Culture Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about… — Richard Flanagan Fallacy Copy Share Image
“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government -… — Richard Flanagan Accusation Copy Share Image
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence… — Richard Flanagan Aborigines Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Always wrong Copy Share Image
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't… — Richard Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
