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
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.
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.
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.
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'.
memories people tag
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
heart firsts power-of-one
First with the head, then with the heart.
men humanity mind
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.
men thinking good-man
what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?
games play feet
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
wisdom way genius
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.