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Tim (Timothy John) Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer of novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 2007 he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust and has won numerous literary awards. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times.

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I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

Learnt, Longer, Prefer, See, Thirties

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Blood, Bounty, Hunting, Saw, Sea, Witness

Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself.

Determination, Odds, People, Overwhelming, Impossibility

In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

Australia, Macho, Rock, Rocks, Sports, Youth

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Dusk, Ears, Home, Quiet, Ringing

And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

Happiness, Judge, Judging, Man, Men, Reflection

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.

Badly, Believe, Control, Saying, Should

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

Beach, Continent, Looking, Nature, Sea

Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.

Connectedness, Larger, Past, Real, World, Years

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

Life Changing, Mean, People, Philanthropic, Renewal

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

Doe, Feared, Hungry, Nature, Sea

Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

Handy, Humanity, Humour, Necessary, Special

Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.

Believe, Day, Faith, Needs

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Afreaid, Alive, Awake, Prove, Proves

I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the same way. We just try to endure and press on, I guess.

Parent, Trying, Different, Press, Conventional, Probably

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

Voice, Giving, Pages, Stuff, Yips, Gives

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

Become, Nature, Peace, Relief, Sea, Stirs

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

Creates, Fiction, Issues, Paramount, People

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.

Bite, Experience, Green, Squash, Tongue

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

Hopeless, Old, Rest, Sadness, Seamless, Weight

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