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Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.
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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
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Australia
Timothy John Winton
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It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.
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Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.
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The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown.
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In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.
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I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.
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If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.
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The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
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We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.
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Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.
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I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.
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Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.
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Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes against the cultural grain of therapeutic smoothing so dominant in what we like to call 'cultural discourse'.
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I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.
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We are all part of that global traffic and I think that the effort to make yourself understood and to be not a problem for anyone or to hide your own particuarly is a mistake. I think people will and do value individuality.
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I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.
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It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
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And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.
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I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and it creeps me out, to be honest. I know people think I must do that too, but I don't. But I do have a long memory.
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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers
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What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.
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