269 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

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

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

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.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.