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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.

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.

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Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever.

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I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.

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If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

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I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

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I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

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I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

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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.

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The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.

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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

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I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

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Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

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My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

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My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

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The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

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The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

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

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Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

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Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

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If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

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I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

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In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

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The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

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Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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I get more optimistic as I get older.

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There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

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The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

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In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.

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Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

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You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

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I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

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History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

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Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

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Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

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