Academy of New Zealand Literature

'My readers turn up...and I meet them as human beings, not sales statistics on a royalty statement.' Fleur Adcock

‘Inspiration is the name for a privileged kind of listening’ - David Howard

'The thirty-five of us were in the country of dream-merchants, and strange things were bound to happen.' - Anne Kennedy

'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter

'...poetry makes intimate everything that it touches.' - Michael Harlow

'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter

'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell

'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell

'Character to some extent is much a construction of the reader as it is of the writer.' - Lloyd Jones

'...we were there as faith-based writers, as believers in the mana of Oceania...' - David Eggleton