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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
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.
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.
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
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.
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
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.
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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