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I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

~Richard Flanagan

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I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

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My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

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I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

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Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

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The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.

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Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

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I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

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I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

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I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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