I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“They sat in silence for a moment. Then Mannering said, gruffly, 'What you're telling me is that this isn’t the whole picture.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“ I am interested in those truths that are yet unknown, it is only so that they might in time, be made… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“It is always a starkly private moment when a governor first apprehends his subject as a man—perhaps not as an equal, but… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“The full account of what transpired during this last leg of the voyage is Moody’s own, and must be left to him.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Every little thing now has to be about maximising your potential, and perfecting yourself, and honing yourself, and getting the best deal… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Like, no one ever actually knows what the right thing to do is. I mean, you can think that you know what’s… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“Gaining control isn't the exciting part. Sleeping with a minor isn't exciting because you get to boss them around. It's exciting because you're risking… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
“It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if one's soul… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share
