New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
I've been to New Zealand, like, 25 or 30 times.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.