J. M. Coetzee Quotes
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
Citations
Coetzee, J. M. Slow Man. Secker & Warburg, 2005.
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Sometimes misquoted as "Everyone is the hero of their own life story."
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Prize (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.