At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.'… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary,… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
