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
motivational self-confidence pride
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
work writes
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
bible english five forced learn life taught three verses wonderful
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
date guess jumping moon
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.
advertising five intended journalism life meant six work
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
love naked seem truth understand
My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
emergencies sometimes sometimes-in-life
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
advice power-of-one donkey
Never take advice from a donkey.
talking debate conversation
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
believe heart men
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.
matter power-of-one ends
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
winning mind embrace
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
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.