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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Air Allow Break Buster City Cool Days Enough Evenings Exuberant Families Gathered Heat Leave Metropolis Multicultural Out Passed Sleep Sydney Thunderstorm Today Waiting Western Would 1960S

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Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Book Burning Clean Filthy How Literature Macbeth Mental Mind Sometimes Visions Want Without Would

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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Austere Become Been Believe Days English Even Finer Journals Lately Modern Most Our Phrase Reading Than Too Turns Usage Way

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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Act Book Got Grave Hear How Me Motion Narrator Past Plot Rise She Somebody Sounds Start Starts Talking Tell Up Voice Who Will

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I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Cross Even Found Had Hand Journalist Less Much Notebook Really Relatives See Shy Strangers Street Talk Used Wise You Your

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The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

~Geraldine Brooks

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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 her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Again Babe Because Confound Diplomat Doctor Down Engineer Hair Her Know Learned May One Of The Things Over She Story Things Think Unbelievable Veil Waist Will Woman You

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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 library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Books Both Card Come Could Dad Every Go Great Had Library Morning Mum Mum And Dad Off Pass Readers Saturday Saturday Morning Signature Sister Something Us Were Would

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So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Adopting Beautiful Bloody Born Boy Brother Child Course Due Ended Ethiopia First First Child Five He Know Lucky Oh Old Then Thought Up Wanted Who Years You

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There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Bit Great Great Stories Imagination In The Past Just Know Little Little Bit Many Past Stories Where Work You

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1955

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