I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. Thomas Keneally More Quotes by Thomas Keneally More Quotes From Thomas Keneally Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. Thomas Keneally schindlers-listsave-the-worldworld 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. Thomas Keneally wisdomchildrenart Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. Thomas Keneally schindlers-listjustification The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. Thomas Keneally refusalsurrenderprinciples It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. Thomas Keneally abandonambitionart And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally mindwritingtrying Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. Thomas Keneally narratorsmotherwriting 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. Thomas Keneally shipsaustraliadog The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. Thomas Keneally marginslistslying The List is Life. Thomas Keneally schindlerschindlers-listlists It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music. Thomas Keneally lastsearthpeace In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. Thomas Keneally landscapeaustraliacatholic 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. Thomas Keneally educationalchurchparent And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. Thomas Keneally churchliteratureworld And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know. Thomas Keneally australiabelievedirty But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century. Thomas Keneally nicereadingpast 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. Thomas Keneally fleshbelievekids Coitus is random, children are definite. Thomas Keneally definitechildren And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. Thomas Keneally designchurchthinking He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible. Thomas Keneally maymenyears
