Richard Flanagan Came Quotations

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.