Quotes by : Richard Flanagan

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

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

After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a romance....

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect....

-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.

I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the....

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death....

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past....

As they made their way to the coast, he bemoaned the hotel trade in the manner, Dorrigo felt, that those....