Quotes by : Richard Flanagan

But what reality was ever made by realists?

He felt the withering of something, the way risk was increasingly eliminated, replaced with a bland new....

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written....

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.

A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.....

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic....

Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time....

The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken....

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the....

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.