I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
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. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
