6 Quotes & Sayings By Louis Nowra

Louis Nowra is an internationally renowned playwright. He has written more than fifty plays and screenplays, including The Rocks, which was made into a feature film directed by Peter Weir. His most recent work includes the play, The Water Diviner, which won the Australian Critics' Circle Best Play Award and the Sydney Theatre Award for best production of a new Australian play in 2010; and Broken Bay, which won Best New Play in the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2010. Broken Bay is currently touring Australia and New Zealand Read more

Nowra was born in Sydney in 1940 and grew up in Sydney and Melbourne. Educated at the University of Melbourne and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Nowra has been a resident of Sydney since 1963 when he moved to write for television and film.

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Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me were a blur of fear and shock. I heard meself crying and moaning, My oh my, my oh my . I still have nightmares ’bout that time. I still feel like a sharp piece ofice has stabbed me heart real deep. I was filled, filled to the brim with utter baffle and utter loneliness. p. 15 . Louis Nowra
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It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing? Bev Louis Nowra
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I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister. Louis Nowra
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It’s the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do. Louis Nowra
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I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs. Louis Nowra