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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
"As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed."
"My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years."
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
"The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible."
"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive."
"When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session."
"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself."
"I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive."
"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language."
"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
"Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are."
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again."
"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
"It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine."
"I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults."
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
"I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio."
"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
"Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it."
"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face."
"The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered."
"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
"By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made."
"The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin."
"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."
"I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books."
"We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that."
"Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work."
"It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best."
"I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel."
"We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy."
"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
"The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence."
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