Nicolas Rothwell > Quotes

“The creative process is triggered off as unpredictably as a psychotic episode, articulating itself according to its own logic, like an invented language”
― Nicolas Rothwell, Quicksilver

“I was at the desert's frontier, the point where the world of stillness and silences gives way to mankind's order... in the former, the mind is prone to nameless fears.... in the latter... the self is pinioned by external forces... a quite different species of horror presses down.”
― Nicolas Rothwell, Quicksilver

“The explorers: George Grey, whose premature birth was triggered by news of his father's death on the battlefield at Badajoz; the drama-courting Edward Eyre; the vision-haunted Charles Sturt, that schoolfellow of Lord Byron; the Camoes-translating, Sophocles-quoting Thomas Mitchell”
― Nicolas Rothwell, Quicksilver

“Few historians of the inland and the encounters that have occurred over the past two centuries... realise that the men and women in traditional societies still half expect non-indigenous Australians to leave their country at some point, when certain ritual cycles are complete”
― Nicolas Rothwell, Quicksilver

“I feel, as nowhere else, the thickness and the depth of time”
― Nicolas Rothwell, Another Country