Janet Frame

“If I've made a film that turns out to be good, that's a good result. If I've made a film that's good and made a couple of friends, that's a great result. If I've made a film that's no good, but I made a friend, that's still another great result.”
― Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This?

“You are unique. There is only one you. And that is you there, right here, for better or worse. Except that there is no better, and there is no worse. It’s just you.”
― Sam Neill, Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
― Janet Frame