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
moving frustrated feels
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
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.
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.
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.
disappointment effort littles
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.
men evaluation disposition
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
life clever remember
Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.