Bryce Courtenay

Date of Birth:

14-Aug-1933

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Novelist

Bryce Courtenay was Australia's best-selling author, one of the world's best-selling writers. He was best known for his novel, 'The Power of One,' which made him internationally acclaimed and one of Australia's most popular authors, as well as his heartwarming and heartwarming book, 'April Fool's Day' AIDS through transfusion of infected blood. Born as an illegitimate child in South Africa, Corntenay had a difficult childhood development and spent several years in an orphanage and became a victim of abuse. He started telling stories to disrupt the riots and also developed good storytelling skills. He fought hard throughout his youth and eventually earned enough money to travel to London to study. There he fell in love with an Australian girl and followed her to Australia. He eventually married her and made Australia his home. He created a highly successful career as a marketing officer and then went on to work as a Creative Director for companies such as McCann Erickson and J. J. Walter Thompson. However, it was his favorite dream to write books, and he started writing work after his 50th birthday, and within a few years he became one of Australia's most popular writers.

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QUOTES BY Bryce Courtenay

"First with the head, then with the heart."

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

". . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child."

"Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention."

"I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end."

"But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope."

"I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed."

"Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do."

"First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start."

"When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win."

"Never take advice from a donkey."