Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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• I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives…
• The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and…
• I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
• Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
• There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater…
• We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out…
• September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
• Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
• I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to…
• Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
• My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
• The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
• And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know…
• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about…
• Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by…
• Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a…
• Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people…
• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,…

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