What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation… — 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… — 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 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
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've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice. — 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
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
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
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — 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
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're… — 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
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — 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
