Australian - Novelist | 1961 -
Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.
Richard Flanagan
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I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
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I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.
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We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.
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I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
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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.
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We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
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I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.
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I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.
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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.
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The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
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I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
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