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
emergencies sometimes sometimes-in-life
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
lying believe i-believe
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
motivational self-confidence pride
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
matter power-of-one ends
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
brother men compassion
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
love children giving
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
winning mind embrace
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
practice challenges shadow
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc
book alive stills
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
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.