Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak
Markus Frank Zusak,is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels for young adults which have been international best-sellers. He won the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2014 for his contribution to young-adult literature published in the US...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth23 June 1975
CountryAustralia
mother book thinking
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
hate book people
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
happiness waiting stones
But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
winning echoes mind
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.
jobs writing responsibility
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.
book writing light
To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
morning brother memories
I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).
real writing years
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.
doe steps
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
people important enough
The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.
memories cutting long
I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.
walks feels
I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
stars lying fall
The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
loneliness angel laughing
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.