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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: About Above Approach Between Big Books Different Excited First Form Gap Generation Just Literature Lot My Generation New New Zealand People Quite Radically Really Second Seems Terms Us Writers Young Young Writers Zealand

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I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Books Children Fiction Literary Literary Fiction More Read Think Well Would Writers I Think

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The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Books Carried Excited Impact Made Me New New Zealand Novels Really Set Some Them Were Zealand

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There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: About Associate Being Drinking Felt Full Imagine Important Lied Long Long Time Many Only People Private Red Red Wine Teased Time Too Want Way Ways Wearing Wine Writer Writing You Yourself

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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Conceptual Much Novel Prefer Really

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I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Authors Before Century Going Had Handful Immersed Literature Myself Never Novels Overseas Read Victorian 19Th Century

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I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Another Away Drifting Feel Life My Life Private Public Side Sort I Can

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It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Apprentice Authority Brave Going Position Very Where You

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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

~Eleanor Catton

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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

~Eleanor Catton

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1985

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