Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 44

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.
S.A. Tawks
It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.
S.A. Tawks
In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.
S.A. Tawks
Debt is always negative, no matter how positively you try to look at it. The “minus” sign in front of your bank balance is a dead giveaway, despite what you might think about leveraging or whatever. It’s even worse when it’s a credit card or a student loan, and you can’t even remember what you’ve bought or learned with it. Sure, the minimum repayments will eventually cancel it out, but by that time you will most likely have dentures and be peeing anywhere you damn well please.
Ana Spoke
Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.
S.A. Tawks
You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances.
S.A. Tawks
The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
S.A. Tawks
You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.
S.A. Tawks
Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.
S.A. Tawks
Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos.
S.A. Tawks
I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.
S.A. Tawks
The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
S.A. Tawks
I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.
S.A. Tawks
Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old.
S.A. Tawks
It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up.
S.A. Tawks
He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.
S.A. Tawks
Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.
S.A. Tawks
If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.
S.A. Tawks
People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.
S.A. Tawks
I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.
S.A. Tawks
Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.
S.A. Tawks
Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.
S.A. Tawks
They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.
S.A. Tawks
The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.
S.A. Tawks
Life is an adventure. No-one knows if you can do it but yourself. Set a high bar.
Dale Jacobsen
Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.
S.A. Tawks
If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.
S.A. Tawks
This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?
S.A. Tawks
It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.
S.A. Tawks
She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
S.A. Tawks
Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.
S.A. Tawks
It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.
S.A. Tawks
So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude.
S.A. Tawks
At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.
S.A. Tawks
Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.
S.A. Tawks
The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. Tawks
But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.
S.A. Tawks
Where's your sense of misadventure?
S.A. Tawks
My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. Tawks
A killer on the payroll isn't good for business.' Devour
LA Larkin
I can’t be 100 per cent sure about the whole death thing as I’m still here,
Josh Langley
Question Everything
Josh Langley
We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!
P.L. Travers
She shifted in her seat and took a sip of water. This was getting a bit too far out of her comfort zone. ‘Um, I would rather know exactly what I am agreeing to before I agree to anything.”‘I understand, but part of having an adventure is not knowing what’s around the corner.
Juliet Madison
Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom to persuade each tribe to allow its talisman to be added to it.
Emily Rodda
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.
Emily Rodda
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
Emily Rodda
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
Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.
Richard Flanagan
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
Christos Tsiolkas
The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.
Christos Tsiolkas
Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.
Christos Tsiolkas
I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.
Christos Tsiolkas
I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.
Christos Tsiolkas
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
Christos Tsiolkas
THE THINGS POETS & WRITERS DO THAT I LOVEListen to the AncestorsAcknowledge their influences Trust their gut-feelings and act on themMaintain openness. Play Dance with languagesBe bold Refuse servilityAvoid arroganceEmbrace the unknownLove the journey Respect one’s fellow journeyers
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.
Sara Ahmed
When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specific
Jaclyn Moriarty
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
Rhonda Byrne
Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.
Hannah Kent