Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AOis an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1935
CountryAustralia
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I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
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Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
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Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.
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And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.
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If you look back to the golden age of the church and look at the code of chivalry, the code of chivalry looked pretty good to me, you know.
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
And I was very interested in the priesthood.