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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

~Markus Zusak

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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

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I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.

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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

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I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

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I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

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I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.

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I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a book for adults?' I think the better ambition is to try to write someone's favorite book, because those categorizations of adult, young adult, become kind of superfluous.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Author

Born: June 23rd, 1975

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