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
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
views underestimate point-of-view
Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
self-esteem men imagination
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
impulses quite range states
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.
highlight printed type
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.
plot structure whether
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.