I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. -Eleanor Catton Failure
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 Poetry
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. -Eleanor Catton Beauty
