Thomas Keneally Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.”

“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 very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.”

“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 flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.”

“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 who become the dangerous writers.”

“And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.”

“I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.”

“I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.”

“Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.”

“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 the church and my parents to become a priest.”

“My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.”