Markus Zusak Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing

• 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

• 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.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Coming Back, Desks

• Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Fists, Pages

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.521, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• ...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Pain, Writing, Punishment

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.502, RH Childrens Books

• You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Skulls, Giving

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.322, RH Childrens Books

• 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.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Light

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

• When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.30, RH Childrens Books

• That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Complaining

• 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

• It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 24, 2010.

• Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result.
  
  Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

• 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.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, Writing, Responsibility

• I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Problem, Bigger Problems

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I just want to write someone’s favorite book

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Want

• As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and on the top shelf at home, I've got the books I love, my favorite books, and that's the type of book that I want to write.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Hero, Writing

• Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, My Best Friend, Tests

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

• I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.

  Markus Zusak

  Real, Writing, Years

• I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Character, Wish

• I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.

  Markus Zusak

  Teacher, Book, Writing

  Source: estellabooks.blogspot.com

• 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.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Doubt

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

• If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Source: www.mysentimentexactlee.com

• I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Trying, Three

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

• There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.

  Markus Zusak

  Real, Believe, Book

  "Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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