New Zealander - Novelist | 1961 -
Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.
Anthony McCarten
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As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
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My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.
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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
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Life is not a waste of time.
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I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
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Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.
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I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
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You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
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It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
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Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
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I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.
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