I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
Markus ZusakThe beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
Markus Zusak...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
Markus ZusakI think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.
Markus Zusak