I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — 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 don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than… — 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
'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books:… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going… — 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
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — 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
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.” — 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 of the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
