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Rosetta Allan Quotes

New Zealand

Rosetta Allan is a New Zealand poet and novelist.

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Back to the bedroom, very soon! As soon as all this settles I will be incognito again – for the next two years!

Apparently we Kiwis are really bad at that, not sticking to genre! We must have a real creative freedom – I like it.

Yes, very much so. I wanted to know what made him do what he did – because there is always a story. Maybe some people are born bad but a lot the time its circumstantial, and I can kind of understand. But in the end we are formed by the choices we make.

I had the help of a fellow from the Dublin historical society – he was sending me pictures and information and I did a lot my own research – so it wasn’t hard to imagine what it was like.

No, and I don’t really think it was like that back then, in the early nineteenth century. I think the two sides at times really did reach out to each other – especially the lower class Europeans.

Exactly – we can put people inside a box and say ‘your this sort of person for doing this, you’re that sort of person.’ I don’t like that at all, so I think you’re right – there is this whole middle ground that people forget, that we all move between.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rosetta Allan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.