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Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
Born: 1961
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If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. Richard Flanagan
Political National Would Would-Be More Drown Drowned Question Off Tragedy Australian Australians Refugees Harbour Coast Sydney
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things. Richard Flanagan
Love Family You Writing Matter Matters Say Those Does Friends Love You Who Things
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success. Richard Flanagan
Success History Presidential Slogan Only Exceeded Most Campaign Australian Banality Labor
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
Beautiful Lost Extraordinary Has-Been Only Sacrificed Since Beautiful Places Another Been Years Years Ago Began Forever After Place Places Them Holy Watched
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia. Richard Flanagan
Art Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Thousands Scarcely Some Scattered Given Area Mysterious Through Remote Rock Australia Germany Than Northwest Title Inappropriate English Paintings Enigma Larger
Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts. Richard Flanagan
Old Often Lit Barbie Drafts
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. Richard Flanagan
World Mining Town Come Island Were End End Of The World Tiny Grandparents Illiterate
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other. Richard Flanagan
Love War Light Understanding Other Back Possibility Out Possible Some Brought Shadows Allowing Almost Make Offers Each Illuminates
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. Richard Flanagan
Life Love You Words Live Thousand Only Contain Because Novel Multitudes
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism. Richard Flanagan
Home History Black Sorry Nationalism Say Willing Would John Rates Rising He Referred Version Condone Owners Refused Interest Interest Rates Apologise
The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time. Richard Flanagan
Life Time Strong Past Sense Circular Strong Sense
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are. Richard Flanagan
Hope People Dark Recognise Would About Write Allow Wished Because False Realised
I get more optimistic as I get older. Richard Flanagan
Older More Optimistic Get
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real. Richard Flanagan
Hope You Change World Better Power Too Despair Everyday Easily Find See Touch Only Small Take Generosity Look Around Always Real End In The End Dismissed Your Choose Compass
I do not come out of a literary tradition. Richard Flanagan
Out Come Tradition Literary
You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man. Richard Flanagan
Work You Man Year Whatever Financially Find Struggling Take Unskilled Like Looked Bald Still Off Very Get Labouring Middle-Aged Successful Two
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always. Richard Flanagan
Writing Words Say Several Characters Plots Rather Could Always Years Maxim Listen After Much Novel Novelist Need
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. Richard Flanagan
Work Man Mines Unskilled Well Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Man Pays
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. Richard Flanagan
History You Beauty Other Find Look Hand The History Of Literature
I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself. Richard Flanagan
Time Sense Circular Constantly Strongly Returned Up Itself Very Being Grew
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
Beautiful Family Me Words Father First He Knew Beautiful Thing Read Said Were His Ever Thing
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out. Richard Flanagan
Life You Book Problem Suits Men Books Out Write Devote Making Making Movies Go Just Whereas The Problem With Happen Flattering Movies Then Much Your
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Richard Flanagan
Believe Someone Write Writer Verb Am Noun Compelled
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. Richard Flanagan
Courage Walk Naked Admire Writers Common
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears. Richard Flanagan
Tears Own Mark Writer Never Should Page
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. Richard Flanagan
You Free Duty Books Act Novelist
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