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Eleanor Catton

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.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn’t, you’re letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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

Eleanor Catton

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.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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

Eleanor Catton

I don’t feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that’s something people feel if they don’t connect with a work of art. But I don’t think a work of art can actively reject the person who’s looking at it or reading it.

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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

– Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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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