KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Richard Flanagan Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Richard Flanagan

Showing 41-50 of 98 Quotes by Richard Flanagan

The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so too has Tony Abbott.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'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.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

~Richard Flanagan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Richard Flanagan on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Paulo Coelho
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Walter Scott
Leo Tolstoy

Popular Authors

Lord Byron Galileo Galilei A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Abraham Lincoln Abraham Maslow Adam Smith Sophocles E. E. Cummings

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Beauty Car Change Environmental Legal Motivational Poetry