Nick Earls
Nick Earls
Nicholas Francis Ward "Nick" Earls is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby. The majority of Earls' novels are set in his home town of Brisbane, a fact which led to his high local profile, and his fronting of a major Brisbane tourism campaign...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1963
CountryAustralia
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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.
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My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.
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I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.
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E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.
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Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.