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.
From Richard Flanagan
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.
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.
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.
I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
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