All Peter Carey Quotes
- All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. All
- Swimming always cleans your soul Cleans
- I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take… Blood
- I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by… Been
- Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. Any
- Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your… Art
- Then I fell in love and everything went to hell. Everything Went
- And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you… Always Possible
- 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 enough.… Any
- Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. Course
- I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity,… All
- I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life. Inspirational
- I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest… Courage
- I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it. Base
- 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 window. All
- I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I… Chemist
- I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me… All
- I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. Activist
- I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from. From
- It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class… Always Thought
- My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. Ambition
- Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. Concerning
- One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit… Able
- So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course,… All
- The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but… Already Knows