People Quotes by Eleanor Catton

9 People quotes by Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton’s nine lines on people showcase her precise, modern voice, delivering thoughtful nuance in a brief format.

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I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going…

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I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see…

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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…

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Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's…

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The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to…

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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that…

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It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,…

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One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the…

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There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking…

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I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

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An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

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“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour…

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“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.”

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“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

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“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…

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“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…

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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…

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As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You…

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The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can…

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“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very…

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“he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.”

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“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…

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Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

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