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"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."
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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
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"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
Want
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"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."
Home
"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."
Time
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
Writing
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
Travel
"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."
Being
"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
Society
"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."
Being
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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