Australian writer (1975- )
Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.
MARKUS ZUSAK
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Underdog
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
"On Top of His Game: SLJ Interviews Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner Markus Zusak", School Library Journal, Jun. 2, 2014
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog
It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
It kills me sometimes, how people die.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Getting the Girl
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Getting the Girl
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Getting the Girl
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog
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MARKUS ZUSAK
interview, The Guardian, Feb. 25, 2014
There was sex, of course.
Nakedness.
Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts.
But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Getting the Girl
The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog
It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side -- just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Getting the Girl
A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog
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
"On Top of His Game: SLJ Interviews Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner Markus Zusak", School Library Journal, Jun. 2, 2014
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog