Sydney Writers Walk

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The Sydney Writers Walk is a series of 60 circular metal plaques embedded in the footpath between Overseas Passenger Terminal on West Circular Quay and the Sydney Opera House forecourt on East Circular Quay.

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The plaques were installed to honour and celebrate the lives and works of well-known Australian writers, as well as notable overseas authors, such as D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and Mark Twain, who lived in or visited Australia. [1] Quotes from a significant work and some biographical information about the writer are stamped onto each plaque, [2] along with an excerpt of the author's writing. [3]

West Circular Quay, with the plaque of Christina Stead; Museum of Contemporary Art (left), Sydney Harbour Bridge (background) 2012-12-05 Circular Quay, New South Wales 06.jpg
West Circular Quay, with the plaque of Christina Stead; Museum of Contemporary Art (left), Sydney Harbour Bridge (background)

The walk was created by the NSW Ministry for the Arts in 1991, and the series was extended when a further 11 plaques were added in 2011. [4] [5] However, as one journalist pointed out, the plaques are not updated. [6] For example, Thea Astley's plaque gives the year she was born (1925) but there is no reference to her death in 2004. The same is true for Oodgeroo Noonuccal, who died in 1993; Judith Wright (d. 2000); A. D. Hope (d.2000); Dorothy Hewett (d.2002), and Ruth Park (d.2010).

In 2014 the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove published a guide to the Walk. [7]

List

Writers marked with an asterisk * were the subject of plaques added to the Walk in 2011. [5]

PlaqueWriterDatesQuoteSource
Jessica Anderson Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Jessica Anderson  *1916–2010In ... Sydney I became conscious for the first time of the points of the compass, and felt for the first time the airs of three other climates, borne onto my skin by the three prevailing winds. Tirra Lirra by the River
(1978)
Writers Walk Circular Quay Thea Astley.jpg Thea Astley 1925–2004Queensland isn't the home of the tall yarn. It's where the tall yarn happens, acted out on a stage where, despite its vastness, the oddballs see and recognise each other across the no-miles and wave their understanding. Being a Queenslander
(1976)
Faith Bandler Sydney Writer's Walk plaque.jpg Faith Bandler 1918–2015The blueness of the sky folded into the sea and it was never-ending. It was always like this. Everything was eternal. The moons came and went and came again. The sun came every day. When the dark thick clouds which brought the rain covered the sun, there was no need to think about them, even to notice them, because the sun would come again. Wacvie
(1977)
C.E.W, Bean Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg C.E.W. Bean 1879–1968Australia is a big blank map, and the whole people is constantly sitting over it like a committee, trying to work out the best way to fill it in. The Dreadnought of the Darling
(1911)
Christopher Brennan Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Christopher Brennan 1870–1932...I know I am
the wanderer of the ways of all the worlds,
to whom the sunshine and the rain are one
and one to stay or hasten, because he knows
no ending of the way, no home, no goal...		 The Wanderer
(1913)
Peter Carey plaque in Sydney Writers Walk 01.jpg Peter Carey 1943–... glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid, and while it is as frail as the ice on a Parramatta puddle, it is stronger under compression than Sydney sandstone ... it is invisible, solid, a joyous and paradoxical thing ... Oscar and Lucinda
(1988)
Marcus Clarke Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Marcus Clarke  *1846–1881All the wealth in the world could not purchase the self-respect which had been cut out of him by the lash, or banish from his brain the memory of his degradation. For the Term of His Natural Life
(1874)
Manning Clark Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Manning Clark *1915–1991The proposals for the use of a southern continent had a history almost as long though by no means so distinguished as the history of its discovery. Some saw it as land dedicated to the Holy Spirit; some saw it as a land fit only for the refuse of society. A History of Australia Volume 1
(1962)
Joseph Conrad Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Joseph Conrad 1857–1924Sydney Harbour ... one of the finest, most beautiful, vast, and safe bays the sun had ever shone upon. Mirror of the Sea
(1906)
Peter Corris plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Peter Corris 1942–2018The sun was going down as I stop-started along in the lane for drivers who didn't have the right money to pay the toll. The sky was clear and the water turned red-gold. The ferries and sailing ships seemed to be skating across a sheet of beaten bronze. Wet Graves
(1981)
Dymphna Cusack Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Dymphna Cusack  *1902–1981Around them the jacaranda broke in a purplish shower, motionless, airy and unreal, as though all the bright morning was caught up in a fragile net of blossom. Jungerau
(1936)
Eleanor Dark Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Eleanor Dark 1901–1985Silence ruled this land. Out of silence mystery comes, and magic, and the delicate awareness of unreasoning things. The Timeless Land
(1941)
Charles Darwin Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Charles Darwin 1809–1882This is really a wonderful Colony; ancient Rome, in her Imperial grandeur, would not have been ashamed of such an offspring.Letter from Charles Darwin
(1836)
C.J. Dennis Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg C.J.Dennis 1876–1938It appened this way: I 'ad jist come down,
After long years, to look at Sydney town.
An' 'struth! Was I knocked endways? Fair su'prised?
I never dreamed! That arch that cut the skies!
The Bridge! ...		 I Dips Me Lid
(1936)
Arthur Conan Doyle Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930We all devoted ourselves to surf-bathing, spending a good deal of our day in the water as is the custom of the place. It is a real romp with Nature, for the great Pacific rollers come sweeping in and break over you, rolling you over on the sand if they can catch you unawares. It was a golden patch in our restless lives. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
(1921)
Umberto Eco plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Umberto Eco 1932–2016L'Australia non è solo agli antipodi, è lontana da tutto, talora anche da se stessa.


Australia is not only at the Antipodes, she is far away from everything, sometimes even from herself.

 L'Espresso
(1982)
A.B. Facey Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg A.B. Facey  *1894–1982I have lived a very good life, it has been very rich and full. I have been very fortunate and I am thrilled by it when I look back. A Fortunate Life
(1981)
Miles Franklin plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Miles Franklin 1879–1954The sun came up through the Heads and stole its way to the Quay, far over the bay. Each of the tiny waves turned to flame, and as the sun rose higher it left pearly tracks across the water. A month would not be long enough to imbibe such beauty ... My Career Goes Bung
(1946)
May Gibbs Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg May Gibbs 1877–1969Humans are as strong as the Wind, swift as the River, fierce as the Sun ... They whistle like the birds; they are as cruel as the snake. They have many skins which they take off many times. When all the skins are off the Human looks like a pale frog. Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
(1939)
Mary Gilmore Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Mary Gilmore 1865–1962Old Botany Bay
Taking the sun
Shame on the mouth
That would deny
The knotted hands
That set us high!		 Old Botany Bay
(1918)
Germaine Greer Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Germaine Greer 1939–Australia is my birthplace but I cannot call it my own as well as my native land, for I have no right to live there. Until a treaty is agreed with the original inhabitants, I shall be homeless in the world.Journal of the Plague Year (1988)
Xavier Herbert plaque in Sydney Writers Walk 05.jpg Xavier Herbert 1901–1984Like a city in a dream, that Capital to which I was bound rose out of verdant plains to meet my seeking eye, to become, as I neared it, like a lovely woman extending jewelled arms to draw me to her bosom. Disturbing Element
(1963)
Dorthy Hewett Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Dorothy Hewett 1923–2002I had a tremendous world in my head and more than three-quarters of it will be buried with me.Sally Banner in The Chapel Perilous
(1971)
A.D. Hope Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg A.D. Hope 1907–2000... Yet there are some like me turn gladly home
from the lush jungle of modern thought, to find
The Arabian desert of the human mind,
hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,
Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare
Springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes
The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes
Which is called civilization over there.		 Australia
(1939)
Donald Horne.jpg Donald Horne  *1921–2005The good qualities of Australians ... their non-doctrinaire tolerance, their sense of pleasure, their sense of fair play, their interest in material things, their sense of family, their identity with nature ... their scepticism, their talent for improvisation, their courage and stoicism. These are great qualities that could constitute the beginnings of a great nation. The Lucky Country
(1964)
Robert Hughes plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Robert Hughes 1938–2012Would Australians have done anything differently if their country had not been settled as the jail of infinite space? Certainly they would. They would have remembered more of their own history. The Fatal Shore
(1987)
Barry Humphries Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Barry Humphries 1934–2023I think that I could never spy
A poem lovely as a pie.
A banquet in a single course
Blushing with rich tomato sauce.		 Neglected Poems and Other Creatures
(1991)
Clive James Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Clive James 1939–2019In Sydney Harbour ... the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back. Unreliable Memoirs
(1980)
George Johnston Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg George Johnston 1912–1970Sydney is a city of light and wind more than of architecture ... The majesties of nature and the monstrosities of man have a cheek by jowl evidence in Sydney more insistent, I think, than in any other city in the world. Clean Straw for Nothing
(1969)
Elizabeth Jolley Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Elizabeth Jolley  *1923–2007One day poets will come and teach the inhabitants of this strange country to look on the loveliness around them. Each of us creates his own vision of Australia and we see with our minds and our memories as much as with our eyes. Central Mischief
(1992)
Thomas Keneally plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Thomas Keneally 1935–The place which had been chosen for this far-off commonwealth and prison, and named Sydney Cove (in the spirit of events), faced the sun, which was always in the north ... The land on either side of the cove was divided down the middle by a freshwater stream flowing out of a low hinterland among cabbage-tree palms, native cedars, the strange obdurate eucalyptus trees of a type which ... occurred nowhere else in all creation. The Playmaker
(1987)
Writers Walk Circular Quay Rudyard Kipling.jpg Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936Sydney . . . was populated by leisured multitudes all in their shirt-sleeves and all picnicking all the day. They volunteered that they were new and young, but would do wonderful things some day. Something of Myself
(1937)
Ray Lawler plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Ray Lawler 1921–How about that, Roo? We've been goin' to the same places for so long and doin' the same things that we've started to run ourselves into the ground . . . And there's a whole bloody country out there – wide open before us. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
(1955)
D.H. Lawrence Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg D.H. Lawrence 1885–1930Australia has a marvellous sky and air and blue clarity and a hoary sort of land beneath is, like a Sleeping Princess on whom the dust of ages has settled. Wonder if she'll ever get up.Letter from D. H. Lawrence (1922)
Henry Lawson Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Henry Lawson 1867–1922And of afternoons in cities, when the rain is on the land,
Visions come to me of Sweeney with his bottle in his hand,
With the stormy night behind him, and the pub verandah-post -
And I wonder why he haunts me more than any other ghost.		 Sweeney
(1893)
Jack London Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Jack London 1876–1916I would rather be ashes than dust, a spark burnt out in a brilliant blaze, than be stifled in dry rot . . . For man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them; I shall use my time. South Sea Tales
(1911)
Colleen Mccullough Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Colleen McCullough  *1937–2015The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows and immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing ... But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. The Thorn Birds
(1977)
Dorothea Mackellar Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Dorothea Mackellar 1885–1968I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!		 My Country
(1911)
David Malouf Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg David Malouf 1934–Australia is still revealing itself to us. We oughtn't to close off possibilities by declaring too early what we have already become."Lugarno Postscript", Notes and Furphies
(1979)
James A Michener Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg James A. Michener 1907–1997Mankind was destined to live on the edge of perpetual disaster. We are mankind because we survive. We do it in a half-assed way, but we do it. Chesapeake
(1978)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1920–1993I could tell you of the heartbreak, hatred blind,
I could tell of crimes that shape mankind,
Of brutal wrongs and deeds malign,
Of rape and murder, son of mine;
But I'll tell instead of brave and fine
When lives of black and white entwine.
And men in brotherhood combine -
This would I tell you, son of mine.		 Son of Mine
(1964)
Ruth Park plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Ruth Park 1917–2010To walk into the Opera House is to walk inside a sculpture, or perhaps a seashell, maybe an intricate, half-translucent nautilus. Morphology and the computers have composed a world of strange breathless shapes, vast, individual, quite unlike any other architecture. The Companion Guide to Sydney
(1973)
Banjo Paterson Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson 1864–1941It's grand to be an unemployed
And lie in the Domain,
And wake up every second day -
And go to sleep again.
 It's Grand
(1902)
Henry Handel Richardson Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Henry Handel Richardson 1870–1946No one is less lenient towards romantic longings than he who has suffered disappointment in them, who has failed to transmute them into reality. Maurice Guest
(1908)
Nevil Shute plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Nevil Shute 1899–1960 "It's a funny thing", Jean said. "You go to a new country, and you expect everything to be different, and then you find there's such a lot that stays the same". A Town Like Alice
(1950)
Kenneth Slessor Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Kenneth Slessor 1901–1971The red globes of light, the liquor-green,
The pulsing arrows and the running fire
Spilt on the stones, go deeper than the stream;
You find this ugly, I find it lovely.
Ghost's trousers, like the dangle of hung men,
In pawnshop windows, bumping knee by knee,
But none inside to suffer or condemn
You find this ugly, I find it lovely.		 William Street
(1939)
Christina Stead Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Christina Stead 1902–1983This land was last discovered; why? A ghost land, this continent of mystery . . . Its heart is made of salt; it suddenly oozes from its burning pores, gold which will destroy men in greed, but not water to give them drink. Seven Poor Men of Sydney
(1934)
Robert Louis Stevenson Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894... there is material for a dozen buccaneering stories to be picked up in the hotels at Circular Quay. Robert Louis Stevenson, His Association With Australia – Mackaness
(1935)
Douglas Stewart Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Douglas Stewart 1913–1985Australia's the violent country; the earth itself
Suffers, cries out in anger against the sunlight
From the cracked lips of the plains ...
I have come to understand it in love and pity;
Not horror now; I understand the Kellys.		 Ned Kelly
(1943)
Watkin Tench plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Watkin Tench  *1758–1833The wind was now fair, the sky serene ... the temperature of the air delightfully pleasant: joy sparkled in every countenance, and congratulations issued from every mouth. Ithaca itself was scarcely more longed for by Ulysses, than Botany Bay by the adventurers who had traversed so many thousand miles to take possession of it. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
(1789)
Kylie Tennant Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Kylie Tennant 1912–1988To be born is to be lucky. Later, life may prove a failure or a success, depending on the outlook of whoever is living it; but that life is there should be a matter of congratulation daily renewed. So many find life a slender chance ... Ride On Stranger
(1943)
P.L. Travers plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg P. L. Travers  *1899–1996Then the shape, tossed and bent under the wind, lifted the latch of the gate, and they could see that it belonged to a woman, who was holding her hat on with one hand and carrying a bag in the other. Mary Poppins
(1934)
Anthony Trollope Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Anthony Trollope 1815–1882The idea that Englishmen ... are made of paste, whereas the Australian, native or thoroughly acclimatized, is steel all through, I found to be universal. Australia and New Zealand (1873)
Ethel Turner Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Ethel Turner 1872–1958In Australia a model child is – I say it not without thankfulness – an unknown quantity . . . There is a lurking sparkle of joyousness and rebellion and mischief in nature here, and therefore in children. Seven Little Australians
(1894)
Mark Twain Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Mark Twain 1835–1910Australian history is almost always picturesque, indeed it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer. It does not read like history but like the most beautiful lies. And all of a fresh sort, not mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises, and adventures and incongruities, and incredibilities, but they are all true, they all happened. Following the Equator
(1897)
Morris West plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Morris West 1916–1999... I claim
No private lien on the truth, only
A liberty to seek it, prove it in debate,
And to be wrong a thousand times to reach
A single rightness ...		 The Heretic
(1969)
Patrick White plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Patrick White 1912–1990When man is truly humbled, when he has learnt that he is not God, then he is nearest to becoming so. In the end, he may ascend. Voss
(1957)
Writers Walk Circular Quay David Williamson.jpg David Williamson 1942–In Melbourne, all views are equally depressing, so there's no point in having one. ... No one in Sydney ever wastes time debating the meaning of life – it's getting yourself a water frontage. People devote a lifetime to the quest. Emerald City
(1987)
Judith Wright Sydney Writers Walk plaque.jpg Judith Wright 1915–2000I am born of the conquerors,
you of the persecuted.
Raped by rum and an alien law,
progress and economics.
are you and I and a once-loved land
peopled by tribes and trees;
doomed by traders and stock exchanges,
bought by faceless strangers.		 Two Dreamtimes
(1973)
Patricia Wrightson plaque in Sydney Writers Walk.jpg Patricia Wrightson  *1921–2010And something else lives in the swamp: something sly and secret, half as old as the mountain. On a still day you may hear it chuckle. The Nargun and the Stars
(1973)

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