- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a fact of my biography, but it's uninteresting.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
- Fiction Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
- Certain Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020