Academy of New Zealand Literature

'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

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

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

'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' - Pip Adam

'I started to feel very guilty, as though I’d perpetrated a crime, a rort' - Stephanie Johnson

'I started to feel very guilty, as though I’d perpetrated a crime, a rort' - Stephanie Johnson

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

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

'I felt energised by the freedom of 'making things up’' - Maxine Alterio

'Many of our best stories profit from a meeting of New Zealand and overseas influences' - Owen Marshall