The Envoy from Mirror City Quotes

“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink in the quaking earth: there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer’s own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.”
― Janet Frame, The Envoy from Mirror City

“When the Customs and Health launch arrived, members of the press also came on board, and I was surprised they asked to talk to me. I had not realised that in the seven years I had been absent, the publication overseas and in New Zealand of several books had built a reputation known as an overseas reputation and therefore valued apparently more than a reputation within New Zealand - the reputation of excellent writers living in New Zealand was usually qualified by the phrase known within New Zealand only.”
― Janet Frame, The Envoy from Mirror City