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
Bryce Courtenay quotes about
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.
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.
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.
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.
taken stronger matter
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.
beats bigs plans
Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.
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.
mind way exciting
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.
lying believe i-believe
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
meat sandwiches states
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
hands water wish
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
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.