It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.
There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
I feel that New Zealand is my second home.
I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.
Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.
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