“As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial du...” — Richard Flanagan Quote

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

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.

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.

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 was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

I think there are a couple of key lessons that come from Judaism that shaped my life. One of them is the idea we have a duty to repair the world, and all of us should play a role in our lives in trying to repair the world and to make the world better for the next generation.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.