I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic.… — 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
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and… — 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
