--- title: "13 Really Quotes By Eleanor Catton" description: "13 Really quotes by Eleanor Catton. Plus more from Eleanor Catton and more Really sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/eleanor-catton-2384_20th-century_an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-y_64260.png" --- > [An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-you-know-literature-is-that-it/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/eleanor-catton-2384_20th-century_an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-y_64260.png) > [I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel-that-is-really-conceptual/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/eleanor-catton-2384_books_i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel_486083.png) > [I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-story-a-murder-mystery-that-was/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/eleanor-catton-2384_adventure_i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-st_1260531.png) > [I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-would-draw-a-really-sharp-distinction-between-creating-and/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/444/eleanor-catton-2384_between_i-would-draw-a-really-sharp-distinction_1043912.png) > [It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/it-is-less-fun-to-talk-about-what-i-am-feeling-rather-than-what-i-am/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef9/eleanor-catton-2384_about_it-is-less-fun-to-talk-about-what-i-am-f_1264737.png) > [I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-believe-really-strongly-in-imitation-actually-i-think-it-s-the/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/eleanor-catton-2384_able_i-believe-really-strongly-in-imitation-a_1997150.png) > [My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/my-second-novel-the-luminaries-is-set-in-the-new-zealand-gold-rushes/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/eleanor-catton-2384_been_my-second-novel-the-luminaries-is-set-in_903410.png) > [The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/the-books-that-really-made-an-impact-on-me-were-not-set-in-new/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/eleanor-catton-2384_book_the-books-that-really-made-an-impact-on_3036226.jpg) > [My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/my-parents-took-me-to-the-bronte-parsonage-in-england-when-i-was-a/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ec/eleanor-catton-2384_authentic_my-parents-took-me-to-the-bronte-parsona_859248.png) > [Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/writing-is-exhilarating-but-reading-reviews-is-not-i-ve-been-really/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/eleanor-catton-2384_bad_writing-is-exhilarating-but-reading-revi_2117823.png) > [One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/one-of-the-things-i-really-like-about-victorian-novels-is-the-close/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f01/eleanor-catton-2384_about_one-of-the-things-i-really-like-about-vi_984212.png) > [I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-feel-very-strongly-influenced-by-long-form-box-set-tv-drama-i-feel/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/eleanor-catton-2384_amazing_i-feel-very-strongly-influenced-by-long_990066.png) > [There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/there-are-a-lot-of-people-of-my-generation-in-new-zealand-literature/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/eleanor-catton-2384_about_there-are-a-lot-of-people-of-my-generati_497483.png) ## Other authors on Really ## More by Eleanor Catton > [“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/we-spend-our-entire-lives-thinking-about-death-without-that-project/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-often-feel-intellectually-frustrated-when-i-m-in-a-position-where-i/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-you-know-literature-is-that-it/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/own-reputation-by-associating-himself-with-a-story-of-cuckoldry/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/in-my-experience-people-are-rarely-contented-to-end-up-where-they/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/his-temperament-was-deeply-nostalgic-not-for-for-his-own-past-but-for/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/what-was-glimpsed-in-aquarius-what-was-envisioned-believed-in/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/gaining-control-isn-t-the-exciting-part-sleeping-with-a-minor-isn-t/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/astrology-s-a-moving-system-that-depends-on-where-you-re-looking-at/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/as-an-artist-you-need-to-be-not-at-all-entitled-in-your-relation-with/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/the-nice-thing-about-the-zodiac-as-a-system-is-it-is-quite/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/true-feeling-is-always-circular-either-circular-or-paradoxical-simply/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/he-built-his-persona-as-a-shield-around-his-person-because-he-knew/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/it-must-have-been-unpleasant-to-be-discussed-as-a-curiosity-spoken/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) > [Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/theatre-is-a-concentrate-of-life-as-normal-theatre-is-a-purified/) [Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/really/eleanor-catton/#itemlist", "name": "13 Really Quotes By Eleanor Catton", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eleanor Catton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-you-know-literature-is-that-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/eleanor-catton-2384_20th-century_an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-y_64260.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/eleanor-catton-2384_20th-century_an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-y_64260.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/eleanor-catton-2384_20th-century_an-interesting-thing-about-new-zealand-y_64260.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real…” — Eleanor Catton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eleanor Catton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel-that-is-really-conceptual/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/eleanor-catton-2384_books_i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel_486083.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/eleanor-catton-2384_books_i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel_486083.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/eleanor-catton-2384_books_i-much-prefer-a-plotted-novel-to-a-novel_486083.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.” — Eleanor Catton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eleanor Catton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-story-a-murder-mystery-that-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/eleanor-catton-2384_adventure_i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-st_1260531.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/eleanor-catton-2384_adventure_i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-st_1260531.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fc/eleanor-catton-2384_adventure_i-really-wanted-to-write-an-adventure-st_1260531.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New…” — Eleanor Catton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. 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