New Zealand Writers Quotes

#1. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

Brian Hare

#2. It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

Marly Youmans

#3. There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

Eleanor Catton

#4. Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

D.X. Logan

#5. I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

Drew Barrymore

#6. In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done

Richard Brautigan

#7. Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

Peggy A. Borel

#9. I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

Dodie Smith

#10. Just because you may live your life in recovery, surely doesn't mean the PARTY IS OVER, Nope!, it just means you can remember what you DID LAST NIGHT!.LOL

Catherine Townsend-Lyon

#11. With each passing minute, I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified,

John Green

#12. I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.

Brian O'Driscoll