Markus Zusak Quotes

Every single line means something.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

It's the story that counts.

Everything kind of has a message in it.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.

Story is what's most important.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.