I’m the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry – something more concrete and out of time. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
I loved ‘Middlemarch,’ I think that’s one of my favourite books of all time, actually. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
My sense of injustice about our family’s ‘weirdness’ in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either – my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
Sometimes I’ll read something on Twitter, and I’ll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
I’ve had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It’s funny, it doesn’t ever get better either; you can’t turn your ears off. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
The Luminaries’ is such a different book to ‘The Rehearsal.’ There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there’s a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there’s patterning. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
My second novel, ‘The Luminaries,’ is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it’s not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I’ve been describing it as ‘an astrological murder mystery.’ Eleanor Catton Read Quote
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It’s always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it’s so supple and sly. Eleanor Catton Read Quote
