An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. Richard Flanagan More Quotes by Richard Flanagan More Quotes From Richard Flanagan God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. Richard Flanagan makemoregreatgod I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on. Richard Flanagan everyonefacelikeguy 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 wordssayneedwriting 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 lookyoubeautyhistory
