Eleanor Catton Quotes

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

Eleanor Catton

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• I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

  

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• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

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• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

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• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

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• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

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• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

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• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

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• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

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• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

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• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

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• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

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• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

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• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  

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• I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

  

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• We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

  

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• Quo quisque est maior, magis est placabilis irae,et faciles motus mens generosa capit.corpora magnanimo satis est prostrasse leoni,pugna suum finem, cum iacet hostis, habet:at lupus et turpes instant morientibus ursiet quaecumque minor nobilitate fera.maius apud Troiam forti quid habemus Achille?Dardanii lacrimas non tulit ille senis.

  

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• But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.

  

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• I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Literature