Top 98 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

About Richard Flanagan

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

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.

Richard Flanagan

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

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

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

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

Richard Flanagan

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.

Richard Flanagan

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

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

Richard Flanagan

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

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

Richard Flanagan

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

Richard Flanagan

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

Richard Flanagan

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

Richard Flanagan

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