Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Bryce Courtenay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bryce Courtenay
Age: 79 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Died: 2012
Died: November 22
Novelist
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Arthur Bryce Courtenay
Doesn
Make
Unpopular
Anyway
Writer
Point
Sense
More quotes by Bryce Courtenay
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
Bryce Courtenay
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
Bryce Courtenay
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.
Bryce Courtenay
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
Bryce Courtenay
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
Bryce Courtenay
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
Bryce Courtenay
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
Bryce Courtenay
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.
Bryce Courtenay
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
Bryce Courtenay
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
Bryce Courtenay
Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.
Bryce Courtenay
The imagination is always the best torturer.
Bryce Courtenay
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.
Bryce Courtenay
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Bryce Courtenay
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce Courtenay
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been
Bryce Courtenay
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.
Bryce Courtenay
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!
Bryce Courtenay
I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.
Bryce Courtenay