“My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.” — Richard Flanagan Quote

“My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.”

“Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.”

“You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.”

“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”

“I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.”

“Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.”