Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak
Markus Frank Zusak,is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels for young adults which have been international best-sellers. He won the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2014 for his contribution to young-adult literature published in the US...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth23 June 1975
CountryAustralia
eye thinking bruises
Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don’t want to hope for anything anymore.
talent escalation humans
Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death
stars laughing watches
Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
book writing doubt
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.
hands crowds arms
Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
book great-book greatest-book
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
smart arses ask-me
All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
jew
They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.
summer book color
Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
forget paint behinds
Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.
dark light kitchen
Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
teenager book thinking
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.
good-woman attributes crisis
An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
eye hands sky
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.