Eleanor Catton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Eleanor Catton quotes and sayings page 4 (39 year old author). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 72 we have for her.
“I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.”
“My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.”
“I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.”
“I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.”
“I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.”
“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 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 would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.”
“Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.”
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