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‟ I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
- Eleanor Catton
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‟ 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