Markus Zusak Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing -- when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Children, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.435, Random House

• A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

  Markus Zusak

  Love, Children, Leaving

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Random House

• Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Soul, Arms

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.246, Random House

• … it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Rain, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.497, RH Childrens Books

• The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Adults, Humans

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Night, Feet

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.274, Random House

• People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, People, Defining Moments

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.67, RH Childrens Books

• As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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