“Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“The bronze-haired avenger of his father's death, already filled with the fierce light of the future, is at sea and sailing fast for Troy.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
David Malouf
Born place: in Brisbane, Australia
Born date March 20, 1934
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“I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Phantastes
“Then Furo’s canoe came through the reeds and Maia hugged Clovis and said good-bye. If everything went according to plan, he would be on the boat the day after tomorrow, and it was hard leaving him.
“But I expect you’ll come to England, won’t you?” Clovis said. He had given her the address of his foster mother. “I wish you were coming now,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears.
As Finn helped Maia into the boat, he leaned forward and whispered in her ear. “Don’t worry about Clovis,” he said. “I’ll see he’s all right. I won’t let him get too scared, I promise.”
And Maia nodded and got into the canoe and was paddled away.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from Journey to the River Sea
“All I want is someone decent.” She sniffled again, her eyes filling with tears. “You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I’m such an expert on. It can’t just be fiction. It can’t. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can’t find them.” Those guys were out there. In fact, one was watching us right now, somewhere nearby. Keeping his distance, knowing she needed me to herself right then, but still, just outside the door.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Saint Anything
“For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.”
― Anna Funder, quote from Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
“Si un escritor se pone muy enfermo, todo se detiene. Si se muere, su "negocio" se acaba para siempre. En este sentido, la carrera de un escritor popular se parece más a la de un famoso actor, pero hasta el actor más famoso tiene un suplente. Un escritor no. Nadie puede sustituirle. Su voz personal lo es todo. Y esto es especialmente cierto en el caso de una escritor popular que ya está en proceso de ser publicado por entregas en una revista de tirada nacional.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Drood
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