Books Quote by Christine Leunens

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

— Eleanor Catton

I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to…

— Kim Dotcom

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what…

— David Lange

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

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in…

— Eleanor Catton

If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed.…

— Gaylene Preston

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

— Anne Perry

The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

Everywhere you turn in New Zealand, there's something exciting to do. It's the gem of the world. It's so far away from the madness,…

— Wes Bentley

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

— Ronald Biggs

Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.

— James Spithill