Richard Flanagan Professions : Novelist Born : 1961 Browse All Authors Top 65 quotes by Richard Flanagan God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. Richard Flanagan make more great god I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on. Richard Flanagan everyone face like guy 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. Richard Flanagan words say need writing An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. Richard Flanagan middle-aged well man work Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. Richard Flanagan look you beauty history Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors