I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
Eleanor CattonTheatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.
Eleanor CattonThe way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
Eleanor CattonAstrologys 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.
Eleanor Catton