Admire Quote by Richard Flanagan Download Open image “In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.” — Richard Flanagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admire Common Courage Naked Walk Writers Writing
“Violently tear off all a woman's clothes, but not with all delicacy reveal her soul, because she will be scared and, feeling really naked,… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
“Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers. — George Saunders Copy Share
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan 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, and if… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast,… — Richard Flanagan 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 no purpose… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams? — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself...… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
