Writing Quote by Maxine Beneba Clarke

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

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know…

— Tim Winton

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

— Geoffrey Rush

“People who live in pale cities tragically understand how so much poor they are when they come across with the dazzling colors of the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a…

— George Brandis

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

— Dee Dee M Scott

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

“these will suffice; who knows but we may be on a slope which leads down to aboriginal savagery. But of this 1 am sure:…

— Nelson Algren

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness…

— Michael Leunig

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think," -Bunnymund”

— William Joyce