Latest Justine Larbalestier Quotes from Interviews

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• Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Bars, Culture, Lows

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Art, Creating, World

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• We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Asylum Seekers, Custody, Asylums

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Australia, Government, Progress

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• The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Done, Improvement, Prime

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• I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Years, December, Caught

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• I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

  Justine Larbalestier

  Writing, Able, Six

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• If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

  Justine Larbalestier

  Teens, Firsts, Wonderful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels after I finish them, not before. I'm lucky that I'm in a position where I'm able to do that.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lucky, Able, My Sister

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Thinking, Worry, Gaps

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• I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Hate, Dying, Too Much

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Fashion, Love You, Matter

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• I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Writing, Views, Opposites

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Years, Blogging, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Book, Schedules, My Sister

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• I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Nice, Writing, Difficulty

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• Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Stars, Pneumonia, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Sky, Collaboration, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Mean, Usual, Honest

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy

  Justine Larbalestier

  People, Ready, Behinds

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Strong, Art, Eye

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• The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Cancer, Skins, Hats

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Girl, Book, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Growing Up, White, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Hate, Book, White

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net