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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Writing
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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 only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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