Quotes by Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

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

Book

Good Book

Soul

A writer has to stand outside the page. It’s not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It’s not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages.

Agony

Character

Laughing

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Art

Film

Light

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you’re fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I’ve been lucky. For many years, all I’ve done is writing, and it’s all I’ve ever wanted to do.

Grateful

Jobs

Writing

I think empathy’s a terrible danger for a writer.

Danger

Empathy

Thinking

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they’re the ones to whom it falls.

Fall

Thinking

Wish

In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

Broken

Ends

Our Relationship

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Art

Giving

Men

It’s a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Camels

Details

Stories

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

Abandon

Glimpse

Love Is

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Abandon

Agony

Art

Book

Broken

Camels

Character

Commerce

Danger

Details

Devil

Dramatic

Dream

Empathy

Ends

Experts

Extending

Fall

Film

Forgiving

Giving

Glimpse

Good Book

Grateful

Grief

Hands

Hate

Heart

Horror

Humans

Imagine

Interesting

Jobs

Laughing

Light

Love Is

Lying

Made

Material World

Men

Might

Notes

Our Relationship

Purpose

Realist

Reality

Scent

Sex

Sleep

Soul

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Quotes by Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

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

A writer has to stand outside the page. It’s not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It’s not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you’re fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I’ve been lucky. For many years, all I’ve done is writing, and it’s all I’ve ever wanted to do.

I think empathy’s a terrible danger for a writer.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they’re the ones to whom it falls.

In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

It’s a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

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