Quotes by New Zealander authors

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Small: Every writer has to find their own way into writing
Margaret Mahy
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was alwa
Margaret Mahy
"Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can take over as they develop and change
Margaret Mahy
"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: I dont think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel
Margaret Mahy
"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"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for ye
Margaret Mahy
"I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the readers mind, with one book reinforcing anothe
Margaret Mahy
"At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction"
Margaret Mahy, Author
Small: Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from womens point of view
Jenny Shipley
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: It makes it very exciting dont you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
John Money, Psychologist
Small: The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruct
Jenny Shipley
"The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potent
Jenny Shipley
"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"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: New Zealands taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years
Jenny Shipley
"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: I cant for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone
Jenny Shipley
"I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: They think Im going to be a schoolteacher but Im going to be a poet
"They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever
"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan.
"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces"
Peter Arnett, Journalist
Small: The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient
Jenny Shipley
"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"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: The Open Skies issue is something thats ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need
Jenny Shipley
"The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours
"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle ones need to help by decidin
"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: It costs 30,000 to 50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You dont have to pay so much to send someone to sc
"It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins"
John Money, Psychologist
Small: Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the Un
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments"
Peter Arnett, Journalist
Small: Id like to say from the beginning that the 12 years Ive been coming here, Ive met unfailing courtesy and coope
"I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information"
Peter Arnett, Journalist
Small: President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then Ame
"President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly"
Peter Arnett, Journalist
Small: Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are u
Jenny Shipley
"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"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it
Jenny Shipley
"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the worlds surface and that each Pacifi
Jenny Shipley
"It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated.
Jenny Shipley
"Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction
"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: Its a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think youve got it, you lose it
"It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it"
Tim Finn, Musician
Small: The governments position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessi
Jenny Shipley
"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"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a sto
Jenny Shipley
"The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processe
Jenny Shipley
"Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community
Jenny Shipley
"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put
Jenny Shipley
"The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: I am still in shock and awe at being fired
"I am still in shock and awe at being fired"
Peter Arnett, Journalist
Small: NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women
Jenny Shipley
"NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own
Jenny Shipley
"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"
Jenny Shipley, Statesman
Small: They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle ones ne
"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: I like to see life with its teeth out
"I like to see life with its teeth out"
Janet Frame, Novelist
Small: Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day"
Janet Frame, Novelist