Academy of New Zealand Literature

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

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

'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

'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

'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

'One of writing’s greatest magics is to allow us – to use Kiri Piahana-Wong’s phrase – to slide outside the trap of time.' - David Taylor

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