Markus Zusak Quotes

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I love playing with words and texture.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I love making up titles.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Write whatever you like!

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'