Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Miller Flanaganis an Australian novelist from Tasmania. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist, each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. He also has written and directed feature films. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
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'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
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In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
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I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
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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.
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Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.
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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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Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.
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I do not come out of a literary tradition.
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After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
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It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.
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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 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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I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.