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
years people lost
I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.
mean one-sentence sentences
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
reality realist made
What reality was ever made by realists?
men giving tongue
Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.
sex writing interesting
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.
past ideas perfection
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
men past unhappy
A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
book soul good-book
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.