Richard Flanagan Quotes

Australian - Novelist | 1961 -

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Richard Flanagan

LifeGreatGiftYouPlaceKnowing

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

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I get more optimistic as I get older.

Richard Flanagan

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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

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I do not come out of a literary tradition.

Richard Flanagan

TraditionOutComeLiterary

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

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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

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When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Richard Flanagan

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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

Richard Flanagan

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

Richard Flanagan

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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

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

Richard Flanagan

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