Australian Quote by Justine Larbalestier

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and…

— Victor Garber

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or…

— Peter Temple

For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia,…

— Tim Winton

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to…

— George Brandis

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

— Ronald Biggs

I was lucky enough to grow up in Western Australia and know that the Australian Outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and…

— Tim Minchin

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as…

— Colm Toibin

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people-…

— Ian Mckellen

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman…

— Catherine Jinks