269 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

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.

We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.