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 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 would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to… — 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
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
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,… — 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
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
I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its… — 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
“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
