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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An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
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The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.
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We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
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Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
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Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
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As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
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Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
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A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
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A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.
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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.