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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
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