New Zealander - Author | September 24, 1985 -
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Eleanor Catton
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I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.
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I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
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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 can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
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Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.
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It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
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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 speak about.
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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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One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.
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