Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

“Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at…

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where…

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.…

— Tim Winton

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west…

— Tim Winton

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

— Tim Winton

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…

— Tim Winton

I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds…

— Tim Winton

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

— Tim Winton

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise…

— Tim Winton

“You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them”

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Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes…

— Tim Winton

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly…

— Tim Winton

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to…

— Tim Winton

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

— Tim Winton

“I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.”

— Tim Winton