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Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

~Eleanor Catton

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I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

~Eleanor Catton

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What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.

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I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

~Eleanor Catton

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I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.

~Eleanor Catton

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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

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My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

~Eleanor Catton

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Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.

~Eleanor Catton

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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 ears off.

~Eleanor Catton

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'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

~Eleanor Catton

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1985

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