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In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

~Eleanor Catton

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Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

~Eleanor Catton

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I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Centre Entertained Front Going Keep Love People Reader Something Think To Love Write You I Think

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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Concept Creation Divine Feel Happens Know Like Making Nothing Out Something True You I Feel

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I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Between Creating Different Different Things Distinction Draw Producing Really Sharp Things Think Very Would I Think

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I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

~Eleanor Catton

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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

~Eleanor Catton

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My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.

~Eleanor Catton

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In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that are going to sound good. But you've also got all the chromatic possibilities, the possibilities of sounding dissident, of being unexpected.

~Eleanor Catton

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Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Being Bit Buried Come Concrete Entertaining Fiction Little Little Bit More Much Narrative Out Out Of Time Poetry Something Starts Stops Structures Supposed Time Too Too Much

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1985

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