Richard Flanagan Quotes

Australian - Novelist | 1961 -

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

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In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.

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Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

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I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

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My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

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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.

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I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

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I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

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I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

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My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

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I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

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