Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton MNZMis a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In January 2015, she created a short-lived media storm in New Zealand when she made comments in an interview in India in which she was critical of "neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow, very money-hungry politicians who do not care about culture."...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 September 1985
self perspective exclusion
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.
girl heart race
What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?
views underestimate point-of-view
Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
mean astrology psychology
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.
views way social
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
desire kind reason
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
men unhappy want
All men want their whores to be unhappy.
giving wish human-nature
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.
past men fallen
A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
girl school loner
She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost
adventure writing years
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
teacher thinking greed
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
thinking speech facts
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.
moving earth london
Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.