![]() ![]() ![]() It was almost nine years after the release of The Book Thief, and his much awaited follow-up novel, Bridge of Clay, was yet to materialise. ![]() “Maybe what we need sometimes is just a little bit of negative thinking.” To the casual observer, Zusak appeared to be on top of the world, since only a man of such comfortable success could be so candid about failure. ![]() “Maybe the adage that positive thinking is what we need doesn’t always ring true,” he said. His thesis was that failure could be enabling, prodding us to greater creative heights, and that problems weren’t problems per se, but the grit in the oyster that becomes the pearl in the shell. Dressed smart casual, with a winning smile and self-effacing manner, Zusak recounted humorous and occasionally heart-warming stories about how, as a child, he had bombed out of his athletics carnival in front of his entire family, and how as a 20-something he had struggled to write his breakthrough novel, The Book Thief. In April 2014, the author Markus Zusak gave a TEDx Talk at the Sydney Opera House about the benefits of failure. ![]()
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