I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
From Richard Flanagan
You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
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