All Thomas Keneally Quotes
- I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. Definitely
- I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground… All
- Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her… Air
- Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. Crucial
- But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… Australian
- Coitus is random, children are definite. Children
- I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. Any
- And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. Church
- And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Contract
- You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made… Believe
- In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. Always Come
- And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to… Australia
- And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. Both
- And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to… Church
- But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. Belong
- Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in… Australia
- But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off… Australia
- It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. Abandon
- It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of… Absolute
- Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael. Definitely
- Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. Brother
- So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest.… All
- So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt… Australia
- Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. Entire
- Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't Every Justification