"I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are â€“ about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime."

Source : "Eleanor Catton: 'Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, October 16, 2013.

Eleanor Catton

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.”
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
“A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.”

Source : "Exclusive: Derek Luke Talks About Spirituality, Jack Johnson and His New Role On 'Hawthorne'" by Cynthia Reid, www.indiewire.com. June 14, 2011.
“I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.”
“Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.”
“I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.”
“Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.161, Penguin

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