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It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Absurdity Action Assume Change Character Creatures Extreme Limits Often Our People Pretentious Push Seems Situation Takes Think Us I Think

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I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Able Actually Believe Difficult First First Place Go Going How Imitation Need Place Quite Really Something Strongly Think True Understand Works You I Think I Believe

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To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Beauty Cannot Confront Convey Describe Experience Felt Language Natural Natural Beauty Scale See Stunning Sublime Total View Words You

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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: About Coming Experience How Idea Identity Lot Luck Lucky Other Questions Struck Tend Them Where Women Women Writers Writers

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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.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: About Character Close Closely Gestures Identified Like Mannerisms Novels One Of The Things People Quality Really Things Thought Very Victorian

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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 to down in New Zealand.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Astrology Depends Different Down Earth Here London Looking Moving New New Zealand System Where Would You Zealand

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I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Beautiful Collectively Come Craft Environment Idea Improve Order Principle Think Together Which Who Workshop Writers Writing I Think

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Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Bad Bad One Because Been Book Devastated Exhilarating Get Good Misunderstand Project Reading Really Reviews Strangely Writing

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A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Framing Imagine Joyous Money More Most Outing Own Picture Prints Selection Spent Than Trip I Can

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I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Aggregate Disappointment Effort Every Failure Good Great Little Rather See Small Something Something Good Than Turned Unified I See

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1985

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