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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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'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

Topics: Being Book Books Certain Couple Different Human Intimacy Link Looking Only Out Outside Preoccupation Rehearsal Relationships Shut Then Things Two

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I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Actually Books Favourite Loved Think Time I Think

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Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Books Contemporary Experiments Field Get Historical Long Seems Still Very Which Women Written

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As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Books Long Miss Much Dvds

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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

~Eli Roth

Topics: Books Comic Comic Books Everywhere Geeks Look Now Only Something Used Were

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I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Access Books Care Internet Keep Live Long Off Rain Roof Where

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Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Books Changed Life Life-Changing Magic Many Marie My Life Only Title Word

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The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Actually Answered Become Books Does Dominant Emotional How Intelligence Know Life Literature Me Question Regard Teach Us You

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