Top 16 Australian Authors Quotes
#1. Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.
Green Day
#2. I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back
Sarah J. Maas
#3. If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.
Caroline Kepnes
#4. If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
Annie Dillard
#5. If consciousness is currency, I've got me a goldmine!
Kim Falconer
#6. The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
Tom Petty
#7. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.
S. Parkes Cadman
#8. Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.
Ellen Read
#9. My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
Eleanor Catton
#10. Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#11. Be comfortable with "Not getting to bottom of everything"
Sometimes unconsciously we must find out why this happened, who started what, how am I going to do this.
Have faith that things will work out, and be GOOD with knowing that some things are unexplainable.
Matthew Donnelly
#13. Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are.
William Shakespeare
#14. The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom ... Be wise.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#15. Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it.
Faye Hall
#16. The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
Wassily Kandinsky