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It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
~ Eleanor Catton
About
Am
Awesome
Feel
Feeling
Fun
I Am
I Feel
Interesting
Less
Rather
Really
Saying
Talk
Than
Thinking
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It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.
~ Eleanor Catton
Absurdity
Action
Assume
Change
Character
Creatures
Extreme
I Think
Limits
Often
Our
People
Pretentious
Push
Seems
Situation
Takes
Think
Us
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It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
~ Eleanor Catton
Apprentice
Authority
Brave
Going
Position
Very
Where
You
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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
Books
Contemporary
Experiments
Field
Get
Historical
Long
Seems
Still
Very
Which
Women
Written
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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
Adult
Author
Children
Guided
Literature
Margaret
Me
Out
Took
Towards
Who
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Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.
~ Eleanor Catton
Love
Money
Only
Person
The Only Thing
Thing
Transform
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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
~ Eleanor Catton
American
Father
Fell
He
His
Home
Love
Never
New
New Zealand
Youth
Zealand
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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
American
Australian
Authors
Because
Between
British
Canadian
Children
Librarian
Library
Life
Lot
Mum
Reading
Spent
Split
Time
Work
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My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.
~ Eleanor Catton
Authentic
Burst
England
Excellent
Felt
Fight
Had
Me
Mum
Out
Over
Parents
Place
Ran
Really
Tantrum
Tears
Teenager
Temper
Took
Very
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My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'
~ Eleanor Catton
Been
Conventional
Describing
Far
Gold
Historical
Mystery
New
New Zealand
Novel
Really
Second
Sense
Set
Though
Zealand
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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
About
Amplified
Car
Cheerfully
Did
Either
Fact
Family
Injustice
Me
Older
Our
Own
Owning
Parents
Quite
Sense
Television
Thank
Them
True
Very
Weirdness
Were
Which
Would
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Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
~ Eleanor Catton
Again
Am
Back
Days
Going
Hypnotic
I Am
Listen
Mirrors
Often
Over
Phrases
Putting
Repeat
Same
Sentence
Something
Songs
Time
Together
Way
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One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.
~ Eleanor Catton
About
Character
Close
Closely
Gestures
Identified
Like
Mannerisms
Novels
One Of The Things
People
Quality
Really
Things
Thought
Very
Victorian
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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
Darkest
Day
Just
Just Be
Moods
Read
Rest
Something
Sometimes
Twitter
Week
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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
Also
Complement
Every
Gets
Great
Head
Itself
Optimistic
Out
Own
Renewable
Resource
Social
Teaching
Very
Writing
Year
You
Your
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The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
~ Eleanor Catton
Ability
Characteristic
Defining
Humans
Meaning
Most
Patterns
Read
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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
Books
Carried
Excited
Impact
Made
Me
New
New Zealand
Novels
Really
Set
Some
Them
Were
Zealand
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The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.
~ Eleanor Catton
Above
Always
Challenge
Coexist
Could
Had
Myself
Other
Plot
Privilege
See
Set
Structure
Whether
Why
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The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.
~ Eleanor Catton
About
Comprehensive
Impulses
Nice
Nice Thing
Psychological
Quite
Range
Speak
States
System
Thing
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The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.
~ Eleanor Catton
Diverse
Enough
Enough Money
French
German
Had
Had Enough
Italian
Left
Less
Literate
Money
Much
Novels
Often
People
Phrases
Published
Readership
Very
Victorian
Were
White
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