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It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Aboriginal Again Feature How Important Important Thing Make Our Our World People Power Really Remember Stories Thing World

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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Big Constructed Down Ideas Imagine Lead Letting Limited Look More Much Need Other Part Paths People Problem Should Sometimes Take Think Think Big Us Very Want Way Work Writer Writers

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My world has been quite rich in my life, and I've been happy. I've no regrets.

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Topics: Been Happy Life My Life No Regrets Quite Regrets Rich World

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No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

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Topics: About Believe Control Happens Maintain Matter Own Who You Your

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That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Attitude Came Come Family Going Less Lived Lives Make Most Mother Our Our Lives School Settle Succeed Then Us Warned

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The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Any Become Being Doctor Doctors Down Expectation Find Get Get Married Had Married Models Mother My Own Nurse Nurses Own Possibility Role Role Models Saw Settle Teacher Teachers Way Work Would

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I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Always Am Given Grateful Me My Own Myself Never Over Own People Seen Trust Very Worker Years

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My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Believe Continue Dreaming Dreams Explore Hopefully Ideas Imagination Inspire Novelist People Role Will World

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English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Because Did English History Language Our Own Particular People Speaking Stories Tell Try Voice Way Write

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When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.

~Alexis Wright

Topics: Abandoned About Away Back Changed Cities Closed Collapsed Communities Different Governments Looking Looking Back Me Never Obvious People Pile Rubbish Seemed Towns Up Useless Walking Were World You

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: November 25th, 1950

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