Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brookswas an American actress whose three-decade career on stage as well as in films and on television was noted with nominations for an Emmy in 1962 and a Tony in 1970. She was married to author Budd Schulberg...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth29 October 1925
CityNew York City, NY
CountryAustralia
banging became book chapters few found head lucky wrote
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.
book mind vision
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?
morning dad book
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
book burning stakes
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
book hands mind
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
exist laid line structure within women
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
ardent decision moral people quaker town
Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.
bit great imagination stories work
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
imagination void wonderful
That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.
generally spent time worse
I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
hand holding lived owned thinking
I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this house?
believe change heart human material matter move remains time together
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.
cross found less notebook street
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
fancy fostered fourth grade happier home mum school settled sort third until
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.