Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground. Sonya Hartnett More Quotes by Sonya Hartnett More Quotes From Sonya Hartnett I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. Sonya Hartnett miserable-life miserable people Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it - Sonya Hartnett brother revenge reflection A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds. Sonya Hartnett towns eye bird I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. Sonya Hartnett dying beautiful long There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch. Sonya Hartnett fingers fire I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them. Sonya Hartnett understand me work writing I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story. Sonya Hartnett me hope children people I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize. Sonya Hartnett saying over always struggle I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway. Sonya Hartnett feel me dog children I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does? Sonya Hartnett mistakes best sometimes people I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing. Sonya Hartnett you family time children If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken. Sonya Hartnett rules i-can broken science I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life. Sonya Hartnett work time life children I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small. Sonya Hartnett live small child simple I've never really been able to tolerate zoos. Sonya Hartnett really been never tolerate I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me. Sonya Hartnett me experience world school
