Top 98 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

About Richard Flanagan

These are some quotes by Australian author Richard Flanagan Novelist, who was born in 1961.

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

Richard Flanagan

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

Richard Flanagan

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

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

Richard Flanagan

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

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

Richard Flanagan

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Richard Flanagan

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

Richard Flanagan

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

Richard Flanagan

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.

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.

Richard Flanagan

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

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