Markus Zusak Quotes

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

The ordinary is the divine.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.