- 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
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020