269 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.

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.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.