Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep No…

- Nick Earls

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

- Nick Earls

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

- Nick Earls

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing…

- Nick Earls

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they…

- Nick Earls

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darre…

- Nick Earls

Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abid…

- Nick Earls

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing ne…

- Nick Earls

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give the…

- Nick Earls