Nick Earls

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on…

— Nick Earls

I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the…

— Nick Earls

My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It…

— Nick Earls

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to…

— Nick Earls

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when…

— Nick Earls

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke…

— Nick Earls

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and…

— Nick Earls

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something…

— Nick Earls

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.

— Nick Earls

“It’s your crap that’s endearing. It’s the basis of any relationship, way beyond even the choice of who wins on to whom.…

— Nick Earls

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived…

— Nick Earls

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to…

— Nick Earls

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me…

— Nick Earls

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving…

— Nick Earls

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed…

— Nick Earls

“Sometimes it feels like I live in such a shit town. It meets all reasonable definitions of a shit town. There are…

— Nick Earls

“We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a…

— Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a…

— Nick Earls

Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around…

— Nick Earls