All Peter Carey Quotes
- 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
- What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn… Attractive
- You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. Feel
- To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. Art
- (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought… Annoyed
- People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else Art
- 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 over,… Book
- Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would… Aboriginal
- Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. Always Full
- I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than… Almost Anywhere