I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
From Eleanor Catton
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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.
The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in.
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.
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
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.
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.
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
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.
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