Sydney Writers' Festival

“I thought ‘Oh no, I’ve been met by a story. And I have to honour that’…I tried to push it away for three years.” –… https://t.co/g0d8JBqmVC

18 May 2022

“People like other people to be excluded from certain spaces.” – Sarah Winman on the exclusivity of art #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“A parrot is comedy gold.” – Sarah Winman when asked by Susan Wyndham “why the parrot?” #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“What is your response to poetry? What is your response to art? Because that is enough. You don’t have to know anyt… https://t.co/rtGqkgHwFY

18 May 2022

“Who has the right to comment on art?…Everybody does, it’s about making that accessible.” – Sarah Winman #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

RT @ellehardy: Hey just a reminder that @TomTilley, Stephanie Dowrick and myself will be talking about religion and politics tomorrow at @S…

18 May 2022

“Everyone has an idea of what being an outsider means to them.” – Sarah Winman #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

RT @sydney_sentinel: Our special guest on this week's Sentinel Speakeasy is Michael Williams, artistic director of @SydWritersFest. He give…

18 May 2022

“Sometimes you need to go into the wilderness to become who you need to become.” – Sarah Winman #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“If we can give them [the younger generation] nothing more than joy and unity, and a belief to keep going, then at… https://t.co/FSJkJl5JMc

18 May 2022

“We need to maintain unity in the face of what is happening.” – Sarah Winman #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“I love to feel uncomfortable sometimes…I think the panic is good for me. I think the fear is good for me.” – Sarah Winman

18 May 2022

“I find it very creative to move away from the familiar.” – Sarah Winman #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“I was thinking about joy as an act of resistance. So I thought ‘I’m going to write a book that is joyous and enter… https://t.co/ULG6cvQaWD

18 May 2022

“It has always been there but it has never been encouraged because certain governments like us to be disparate; it… https://t.co/RuHrOnkcFx

18 May 2022

“If you are other than the norm that has been created for centuries and centuries by the church, if you are other t… https://t.co/LVxJobotMW

18 May 2022

“That was when I came out, early 80s, it was a time of AIDS, a horrendous place to be if you were an LGBTQ+ person…… https://t.co/KMEMMWuftD

18 May 2022

“There were moments where I felt I could have written this book forever.” – Sarah Winman on writing Still Life #SydneyWritersFestival

18 May 2022

“In my edit, we took out 17,000 words. And we took out a character, the narrator.” – Sarah Winman on writing Still… https://t.co/YEx8IrGnSx

18 May 2022

“When that happens, I become cinema…I go back to those films of the 30s, 40s, 50s where the ending is so important.… https://t.co/xrXCnqMgNP

18 May 2022

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