Quotes by New Zealander Authors

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.
Theresa Sjoquist
The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.
Theresa Sjoquist
When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise.
Theresa Sjoquist
She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
Theresa Sjoquist
It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.
Theresa Sjoquist
Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
Juliet Marillier
RegretsTiming is irrelevant when two people are meant for each other. It's what I once believed.But we met during a time when I was such a mess, when I still had so much to figure out. How could I have known how crucial every word, every action was or how losing you would be something I would always regret?If only you could have met me now, how different it would be. How much I have changed. How I have grown. I learned so much from all the mistakes I made with you. I just wish I had made them with someone else.
Lang Leav
You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.
Sofia Grey
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.
James Morcan
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty
Alison Wong
If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.
Sue Fitzmaurice
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Sir Archibald Mclndoe
I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.
Katherine Mansfield
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.
Katherine Mansfield
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine Mansfield
There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Robert Burchfield
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine Mansfield
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?
Margaret Mahy
The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).
James Morcan
We fall, we fall together
Nalini Singh
We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
Nalini Singh
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
Nalini Singh
Please,’ Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don’t beg. You’ll appear weak DO NOT BEG. ‘Please, I’m begging you. Don’t take my bike. It’s all I have left and I ... I ...’ he looked behind him in the direction of the city, ‘I can’t go back.
Teresa Schulz
Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.
A.W. Exley
Bye, Trace. Hope you and Andreja have a good day. Oh, I may be arrested for homicide soon. Please come visit me in prison.
Nalini Singh
If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.
Lance Morcan
Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.
James Morcan
..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive
Keith Urban
She laid her heart and soul right in your handsAnd you stole her every dream and crushed her plansShe never even knew she had a choiceAnd that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can'tYou stupid boy
Keith Urban
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..
Keith Urban
Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.
Katherine Mansfield
I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was true. I would have alibis. I would bring in other people and teach them a story, and rehearse it so carefully and for so long that soon they’d all start to believe that what they said was actually true.
Eleanor Catton
Caring is our curse. If we don’t care, we can’t get hurt. But if we didn’t care, the world would be a dark place to live. We have to deal with it and realize life isn’t fair. People are taken out of our lives, and others live who don’t deserve to continue.
Mandi Lynn
Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you
Jack Lasenby
Train, don't strain.
Arthur Lydiard
When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.
Peter Snell
Divide and conquer. That’s the global elite’s proven strategy when it comes to its treatment of Third World countries in Africa and indeed throughout the world. Or, to put it another way, order out of chaos is the global elite’s favored tactic. They engineer chaos by financing both sides of revolutions, movements and civil wars then create order by providing solutions to governments and citizens in these war-torn countries.
James Morcan