Born Again
When I was 23 and struggling to get anyone to notice I’d written a novel,
it annoyed the crap out of me to see so-called “Young Writer” prizes won
by 35-year-old guys with no hair. In which parallel universe, I wanted to know,
could those tottering old farts be considered young?
Which is why I’m so happy to be named among the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists (for Company). Somewhere out there, a curly-haired 23-year-old is muttering about the unfairness of it all. Suck it up, punk.
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Danni Matzk (#357)
Location: England
Quote: "Eagerly awaiting the European Tour."
Posted: 107 days ago
I hope it goes well for you tomorrow. I would come, but I haven't got a passport or a plane ticket to Sydney that would get me there on time.
Jeffrey (#2286)
Location: Right here
Quote: "I love paste."
Posted: 107 days ago
Stygian Emperor (#2947)
Location: Austin, TX
Quote: "Hope is but the first step down the path to disappointment."
Posted: 107 days ago
Kyle (#3321)
Location: Burnie, Tasmania
Quote: ""
Posted: 106 days ago
Maybe you should quietly distribute copies of your last novel..? You know, the unpublishable one. Unless its less about statements made and more business politics - if that makes sense at all.
Hobbie (#1359)
Location: Cornwall, England
Quote: "There was a little man in his hair!"
Posted: 106 days ago
Congratulations.
Stephen Atwood (#3007)
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
Quote: "I'm pretty sure my last words are gonna be along the lines of "careful, I don't think the safety's on"...Probably something like that."
Posted: 106 days ago
...I'm twenty, not twenty-three.
Linnea (#2654)
Location: Rosemount, MN
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Posted: 105 days ago
Mats (#1057)
Location: Turku, Finland, Europe, Earth
Quote: ""An optimist thinks this is the best of worlds. A pessimist fears that is true." Robert Oppenheimer"
Posted: 105 days ago
=) Loved that line! That's how I'm going to refer to you when talking you up to random people I meet while stalking them in the pharmacy.
And don't forget, Georhe Clooney and Steven Soderbergh are your fans! That's pretty neat.
Mats (#1057)
Location: Turku, Finland, Europe, Earth
Quote: ""An optimist thinks this is the best of worlds. A pessimist fears that is true." Robert Oppenheimer"
Posted: 105 days ago
Lowly Worm (#3028)
Location: Rockford, IL
Quote: "Insert witty quote here."
Posted: 105 days ago
Niall Mulholland (#3523)
Location: Scotland
Quote: "Semper Fi - Do or Die"
Posted: 104 days ago
Michael Ricksand (#2212)
Location: Terra
Quote: "You do not have a right to be stupid."
Posted: 98 days ago
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