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This reads as a defense of taking on work that still feels risky. It can be taken to mean that real ambition is not avoiding difficulty, but choosing projects that stretch your abilities, and that creative confidence sometimes grows by entering uncertainty. It lands for any writer or maker facing a project that feels larger than their current skill.
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About Markus Zusak
Australian-German writer
Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer best known for the novels The Book Thief and The Messenger. His work has reached a wide international readership, and he won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2014. He is known above all for those two novels, which became international bestsellers. His writing is associated with fiction that has travelled well beyond his home audience.
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Books by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
2013
I Am the Messenger
2009
Bridge of Clay
2018
Getting the Girl
2013
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
2002