Quotes by Kate Grenville - Page 1

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville / Author
Believer
Great Believer
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The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
Kate Grenville / Author
Ideas
Perfection
Tyrants
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I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
Kate Grenville / Author
Fiction
Want
Writing
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
Kate Grenville / Author
World Me Nothing
Wonders
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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Operate
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
Kate Grenville / Author
Australia
Realised
Secret
Began
River
Suddenly
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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Prose
Rhythm
Published
Sentence
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I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.
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Quality
Book
Thinking
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A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.
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Book
Order
Paper
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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Colorado
Innovative
Bearded
Encouraged
Ladies
Short Stories
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Explored
Further
Produces
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
Kate Grenville / Author
Australia
Big Cities
Cities
Coastal
Contradiction
Fringe
Nearly
Foreign Country
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Exceptional
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Animal
Blunt
Frustrating
Infinite
Any Other Way
Complexities
Instrument
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
Kate Grenville / Author
Different
Language
Speak
Speakers
Person
Absolutely
Why
Another
Own
Take
World Person Never
Different Person
Each
Enter
Exact
Sort
Learn
Slightly
Therefore
Translation
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Love Yourself Me
Experienced
Love Me Yourself
Perceptions
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville / Author
Australian
Countryside
Australians
Thin
Tourist
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville / Author
Conventional
Dialogue
Narrative
Punctuation
Life Always Me
Life Me Always
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Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.
Kate Grenville / Author
Book
Needs
Way
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I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
Kate Grenville / Author
Shapes
Thinking
Way
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
Kate Grenville / Author
Conscious
Groups
Over It
Change Power People
Anything Else
Displace
Sideline
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
Kate Grenville / Author
Coincidence
Rhythm
Satisfaction
Working Together
Love Poetry Music
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Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.
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Grief
Joy
Skins
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