82 Quotes by Thomas Keneally

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.