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I didn't want too many Māori names, I wanted it to travel internationally. I knew that Americans might get Two Lakes, but they wouldn't get Rotorua.

— Alan Duff Author Alan Duff wouldn't write Once Were Warriors again (2019)

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I wrote the story on behalf of the Beths, and the Graces, and the Boogies, and everybody else in that situation.

Author Alan Duff wouldn't write Once Were Warriors again (2019)

He [Jake] had an important part in his time when I wrote him, but no longer.

Author Alan Duff wouldn't write Once Were Warriors again (2019)

The Māori New Zealand I wrote about nearly 30 years ago still exists and yet it many ways most of it doesn't. Māori have advanced.

Once Were Warriors was a reference point on what New Zealand doesn't want (2019)

I wasn't pointing the finger at Jake, ... Jake didn't know. You don't know what you don't know.

Author Alan Duff wouldn't write Once Were Warriors again (2019)

My work deals with universal problems - they not just Maori or New Zealand problems, but Australian, American .... it's a male problem.

The Duff Guy (1996)

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