“Whatever my original idea was for the book, it didn’t stand a chance against the spiritual thirst I had for kawakawa green to spill across my life and work, which was the desire to respond to the deaths and violence of Auē.” — Becky Manawatu on writing Kataraina.
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“It’s so important for me to step outside my private, comfortable life and say ‘Toitū Te Tiriti’ any time I have a public chance to do that. It’s really the bare minimum I can do.” — Novelist Pip Adam.
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“My parents delivered some very intriguing one-liners which fired the imagination, such as: ‘You know, you had an uncle who rode on a whale.'” — Patricia Grace.
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“Adults submitted work to a group of adults. Everyone presumed they were there, not to have their genius confirmed to them, but to become better writers.” — Becky Manawatu.
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