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
humans
I am haunted by humans.
nice cheerful trust-me
Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
trying firsts colour
First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.
desks coming-back ability
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.
faces coughing streams
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
unconditional-love matter recognition
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
mistake heart moon
Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.
ruins
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
kind idiot arthur
Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
being-ignored thrill ignored
The thrill of being ignored!
july cliffs rafters
July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
forests germany grows
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
mistake perfection feelings
It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
good-woman attributes crisis
An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.