Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham
Michael Robothamis an Australian crime fiction writer. His daughter is the ARIA and APRA Award nominated songwriter, producer and musician, Alex Hope...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 November 1960
CountryAustralia
people
I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.
bad dreams normally
I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.
life
All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.
book favourite supposed
You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.
known natural pick seemed since teacher
I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.
capturing hardest stories
The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.
children hair parent
Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)
sixty-minutes lasts remember
Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)
together balance strange
One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.
true-friend father lying
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.
mistake responsibility pay
That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.
alcoholics-anonymous aa-recovery aa-meeting
Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
hard-work thinking people
People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.
pain love-is two
Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.