The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Geraldine BrooksA book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Geraldine BrooksAnd so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
Geraldine BrooksI knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.
Geraldine BrooksWrite what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.
Geraldine Brooks