Quotes from Bryce Courtenay

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.