107 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

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.

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.

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

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

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.