Australian - Novelist | 1961 -
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
Richard Flanagan
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Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
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I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.
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My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
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I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
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Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.
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The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.
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Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
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I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.
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I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.
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What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.
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In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
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