Bryce Courtenay

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and…

— Bryce Courtenay

If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the…

— Bryce Courtenay

“all i know about the bible is that wherever it goes there's trouble. the only time i ever heard of it being…

— Bryce Courtenay

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

— Bryce Courtenay

“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them,…

— Bryce Courtenay

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

— Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like…

— Bryce Courtenay

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just…

— Bryce Courtenay

“You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart”

— Bryce Courtenay

“I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively…

— Bryce Courtenay

“I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest”

— Bryce Courtenay

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it…

— Bryce Courtenay

Racism is a primary source of evil designed to destroy good men.

— Bryce Courtenay

“my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men”

— Bryce Courtenay

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from…

— Bryce Courtenay

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as…

— Bryce Courtenay

“Generosity overpowers greed.”

— Bryce Courtenay

In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things…

— Bryce Courtenay

. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just…

— Bryce Courtenay

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

— Bryce Courtenay

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

— Bryce Courtenay

“The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.”

— Bryce Courtenay

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

— Bryce Courtenay

“Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

— Bryce Courtenay