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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
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I take your point; it's this twilight that's the danger, between the old world and the new.
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How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone.
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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.
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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
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Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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He did not enjoy speaking about women with other men, a practice which, in his estimation, was always clownish and braying.
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His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.
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One looks in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed.
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If a man wants any shot at making his fortune then he'll never sign his name to any piece of paper that he didn't write himself. P 553
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You give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life.
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I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
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I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul;
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A secret always has a strengthening effect upon a newborn friendship, as does the shared impression that an external figure is to blame:
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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.
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
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It's dreadful to feel alone and really be alone. But
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A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.
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He wondered what assumptions she was forming, what picture was emerging from this scant constellation of his life.
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I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.
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As he watched her sleep he had often been near-choked with joy;
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But time and distance is nothing in the face of true affinity ...
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Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
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I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.
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He spoke as a disappointed man, for whom perfection existed only as something remembered - and then regretted, because it was lost.
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I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.
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Shepard's theory of law had roused his intelligence, and gratified it, and he again felt master of his faculties.
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It is not yet a feeling that points her in a direction. It is just the feeling of a vacuum, a void waiting to be filled.
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He ceased to be able to distinguish between personal preference and moral imperative, and he ceased to accept that such a distinction was possible.
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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
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Crinoline was so wide that she parted the crowd wherever she walked, leaving an aisle of space behind her.
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Gascoigne believed that justice ought to be a synonym for mercy, not an alternative.
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Why, it almost makes one forgive the rain, does it not - when the sun comes out like this, at the end of it all.
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As she rises, she will have to reconcile herself." "Reconcile - ?" "The savage and the civil,
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Land could not be minted! Land could only be lived upon, and loved.
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A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
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Disdain was useful. It gave him a fixed sense of proportion, a rightfulness to which he could appeal, and feel secure.
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The first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide.
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There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
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You miss the old country. Of course you do. But you don't go back.
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Moody had left all discerning faculties in the pitching belly of the barque Godspeed. He wanted only shelter, and solitude.
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Such a dividend could only be wasted, for it was borne from waste, and to waste it would return.
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Putting one in mind, perpetually, of an untended icebox in which an uncured joint has spoiled.
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He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.
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Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
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His vanity required constant stimulation, and constant proof that the ongoing creation of his selfhood was a project that he himself controlled.
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a chance for total reinvention,
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She was tried for trying to take her own life," Gascoigne said. "There's a symmetry in that, do you not think? Tried for trying.
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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.
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A man with no memory was a man with no foresight - to
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It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
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You can't tell from looking at a man what he's capable of doing. And you certainly can't tell what he's done.
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Diligence deserves to be rewarded." "In what proportion? And in what currency? These are empty words.
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It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
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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.
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At high school they expect answers, but at university all you're supposed to do is dispute the wording of the question.
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Luck is never the whole picture,
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.. a string of coincidence is not a coincitence.
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like a disaffected swan -
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I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star.
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For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance; Moody saw now that he could no more have
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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.
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I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
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Worked like a Trojan. That's one thing I'll say for the Chinese: when it comes to pure old-fashioned work, you can't fault them.
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And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
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His two great loves were hard work and hard work's reward - whiskey, when he could get it, and gin when he could not.
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His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts.
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I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
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Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.
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The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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The past rolls forward to touch the present hour.
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I feel - as though a new chamber of my heart has opened." "Listen.
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Months of silence had made him very bitter, and his bitterness had ripened, in an instant, into spite.
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Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.
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A lucky man ... is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. p 553
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He built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.
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The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in.
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Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
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Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
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Money is a burden, a burden most keenly felt by the poor.
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He had always been irreproachable in his conduct, and as a consequence, his capacity for empathy was small.
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The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
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Strains of Saturday night filtered in from the street - an
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