Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay, AMwas a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1933
meat sandwiches states
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
people brain intellectual
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
kings people world
If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
country years agency
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
storyteller entertainers
I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.
imagination
The imagination is always the best torturer.
men doe
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!
ignorance racism brain
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
christmas book writing
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
way certain wells
One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
beats bigs plans
Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.
wonder-love two people
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.