Quotes by : David Malouf

And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into....

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have....

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves,....

What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing....

The planet, saved for another day, stokes upits slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarletgash....

But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to....

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the....

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for....

Words his soul danced to.

So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not....