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Richard Flanagan

Writing my novel ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North,’ I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

Deep, Great, Writing

Richard Flanagan

I think if ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’ is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.

Father, Experience, Culture

Richard Flanagan

‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Deep, Great, Road

Richard Flanagan

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

Father, Memoir, Novel

Richard Flanagan

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch – the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday – you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It’s always small, but it’s real.

Change, Power, World

Richard Flanagan

There’s always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government’s attitude to women.

Women, Government, Always

Richard Flanagan

… being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

australian-politics, identity, identity-politics

Richard Flanagan

Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.

death-of-the-novel, technology, writers

Richard Flanagan

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

Richard Flanagan

The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.

dignity, refugee, syrian-refugee-quotes, syrian-war

Richard Flanagan

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

authors, literary-prize, man-booker

Richard Flanagan

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

applause, vanity, virtue