Quotes by 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.

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

“I imagined a world of the future as a barren sameness in which everyone had gorged so much fish that no more remained, & where Science knew absolutely every species and phylum & genus, but no-one knew love because it had disappeared along with the fish”