Australian - Novelist | 1961 -
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
Richard Flanagan
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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
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There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.
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I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
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I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.
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As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
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There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.
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The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so too has Tony Abbott.
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Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.
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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.
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'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
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Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.
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