Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.
If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

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Bryce Courtenay
Profession
Novelist
BirthDate
14 August, 1933
DeathDate
22 November, 2012
Country
South Africa
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