Top 98 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

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.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

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

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.