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Richard Flanagan Quotes

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel Picture Quote #1

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon Picture Quote #1

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears Picture Quote #1

My mother hoped I’d be a plumber Picture Quote #1

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well Picture Quote #1

I get more optimistic as I get older Picture Quote #1

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We live in a material world, not a dramatic one Picture Quote #1

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause Picture Quote #1

I think empathy’s a terrible danger for a writer Picture Quote #1

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love Picture Quote #1

I think writing should be about change Picture Quote #1

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books Picture Quote #1

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I do not come out of a literary tradition Picture Quote #1

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys Picture Quote #1

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time Picture Quote #1

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew Picture Quote #1

Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever Picture Quote #1

Writing reminds you that you’re never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic Picture Quote #1

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Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change Picture Quote #1

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out Picture Quote #1

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact Picture Quote #1

I think it’s common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley’s Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey Picture Quote #1

A writer has to stand outside the page. It’s not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It’s not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages Picture Quote #1

Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It’s the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions Picture Quote #1

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You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully Picture Quote #1

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died Picture Quote #1

Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss Picture Quote #1

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul Picture Quote #1

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn’t necessarily bring moral virtue Picture Quote #1

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can’t be an act of filial duty Picture Quote #1

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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon (Richard Flanagan Quotes) A writer should never mark the page with their own tears (Richard Flanagan Quotes) My mother hoped I’d be a plumber (Richard Flanagan Quotes) An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I get more optimistic as I get older (Richard Flanagan Quotes) We live in a material world, not a dramatic one (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I think empathy’s a terrible danger for a writer (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I think writing should be about change (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I do not come out of a literary tradition (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Writing reminds you that you’re never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I think it’s common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley’s Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey (Richard Flanagan Quotes) A writer has to stand outside the page. It’s not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It’s not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It’s the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions (Richard Flanagan Quotes) You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully (Richard Flanagan Quotes) My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn’t necessarily bring moral virtue. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can’t be an act of filial duty. (Richard Flanagan Quotes)

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