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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
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.
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.
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.
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
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