In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. Richard Flanagan divinegreatlarge Change image and share on social
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears. Richard Flanagan markpagetear Change image and share on social
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism. Richard Flanagan aborigineapologisearmband share on social
I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away. Richard Flanagan aboriginecampfear Change image and share on social
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia. Richard Flanagan appropriatelyareaart share on social
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it. Richard Flanagan apprehendfeellie Change image and share on social
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. Richard Flanagan beatbeginconclude Change image and share on social
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. Richard Flanagan bakebreadchild Change image and share on social