I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic pl…

- David Malouf

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of conscious…

- David Malouf

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

- David Malouf

We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world …

- David Malouf

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

- David Malouf

The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and n…

- David Malouf

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us t…

- David Malouf

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

- David Malouf

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next; they m…

- David Malouf