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
book two yellow
All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.
dark scar remember
Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.
book mean writing
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
beautiful beautiful-women existence
Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.
suicide rafters
He killed himself for wanting to live.
lots-of-friends idiot observation
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
writing my-best-friend tests
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
mother book thinking
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
hate book people
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
happiness waiting stones
But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
winning echoes mind
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.
jobs writing responsibility
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.
book writing light
To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
morning brother memories
I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).