--- title: "Best Peter Carey Sayings" description: "Peter Carey is an Australian novelist born in 1943. Browse 113 Peter Carey quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b094/author-peter-carey-4293.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b094/author-peter-carey-4293.jpg) # Peter Carey (1943) Writer Australia **113** quotes in **396** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Peter Carey is a writer from Australia, best known for *Bliss*. ## Quick Facts About Peter Carey Born May 7, 1943 Nationality Australia Profession Writer Notable works Bliss Known for True History of the Kelly Gang, Oscar and Lucinda ## About Peter Carey Peter Carey is an Australian novelist born in 1943. ## Awards & Honors Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Banjo Award for Fiction Miles Franklin Literary Award Booker Prize Ditmar Award Bodley Medal Colin Roderick Award Officer of the Order of Australia Show 3 more awards Barbara Ramsden Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities ## Quotes by Peter Carey · Page 3 > [I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shout-about-other-people-s/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/peter-carey-4293_life_i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shou_3015763.png) > [“She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and-smooth-and-free-from-nasty/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Smooth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/smooth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/peter-carey-4293_smooth_she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and_2542256.png) > [It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/it-s-not-like-i-ve-got-100-ideas-i-finish-a-book-and-i-ve-got-none/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28a/peter-carey-4293_book_it-s-not-like-i-ve-got-100-ideas-i-finis_91580.png) > [I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-would-be-the-worst-person-on-earth-to-be-called-to-write-an-account/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Account](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/account/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/peter-carey-4293_account_i-would-be-the-worst-person-on-earth-to_332544.png) > [“...the hair...that frizzy nest which grew outwards, horizontal like a wind-blown tree in an Italianate painting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-hair-that-frizzy-nest-which-grew-outwards-horizontal-like-a-wind/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Trees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trees/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/088/peter-carey-4293_trees_the-hair-that-frizzy-nest-which-grew-out_2455026.png) > [“They watched the flying foxes wheel above them, like shadows of thoughts, things so indistinct they would not exist without two witnesses.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/they-watched-the-flying-foxes-wheel-above-them-like-shadows-of/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Witnesses](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/witnesses/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a01/peter-carey-4293_witnesses_they-watched-the-flying-foxes-wheel-abov_1392042.png) > [My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/my-greatest-pleasure-is-to-invent-my-continual-mad-ambition-is-to/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Ambition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambition/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/peter-carey-4293_ambition_my-greatest-pleasure-is-to-invent-my-con_2789702.png) > [Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/living-where-i-live-new-york-i-don-t-think-anyone-s-going-to-make-a/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/peter-carey-4293_art_living-where-i-live-new-york-i-don-t-thi_1513567.png) > [The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-great-thing-about-using-the-past-is-that-it-gives-you-the-most/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Colossal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colossal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/peter-carey-4293_colossal_the-great-thing-about-using-the-past-is_3227779.png) > [I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-have-written-a-memoir-here-and-there-and-that-takes-its-own-form-of/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Courage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/peter-carey-4293_courage_i-have-written-a-memoir-here-and-there-a_2245272.png) > [I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-think-it-s-really-boring-from-the-point-of-view-of-the-novelist-to/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [About yourself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/about-yourself/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/103/peter-carey-4293_about-yourself_i-think-it-s-really-boring-from-the-poin_2155565.jpg) > [“Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/would-you-rather-have-the-lords-and-nobles-back-what-is-democracy-for/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Democracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/democracy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d2/peter-carey-4293_democracy_would-you-rather-have-the-lords-and-nobl_229486.png) > [“She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-did-not-begin-to-tell-real-lies-until-rosa-was-in-hospital/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Cancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cancer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fa/peter-carey-4293_cancer_she-did-not-begin-to-tell-real-lies-unti_464195.png) > [“In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/in-the-bush-he-taught-the-knots-i-use-to-tie-my-blanket-to-my-saddle/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Beautiful writing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful-writing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ee/peter-carey-4293_beautiful-writing_in-the-bush-he-taught-the-knots-i-use-to_980901.jpg) > [“His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/his-great-carved-wooden-head-was-marked-with-a-black-eye-that-was/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Australian-literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australian-literature/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/peter-carey-4293_australian-literatur_his-great-carved-wooden-head-was-marked_1159030.png) > [I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-thought-i-would-be-an-organic-chemist-i-went-off-to-university-and/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Chemist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chemist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/peter-carey-4293_chemist_i-thought-i-would-be-an-organic-chemist_1153247.png) > [When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/when-i-finally-began-to-publish-my-father-never-read-my-work-he-d-say/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c73/peter-carey-4293_books_when-i-finally-began-to-publish-my-fathe_555335.jpg) > [“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-have-traveled-widely-i-have-seen-this-country-in-its-infancy-i-tell/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Quote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quote/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/467/peter-carey-4293_quote_i-have-traveled-widely-i-have-seen-this_1323.png) > [“About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/about-her-husband-i-did-actually-enquire-but-she-held-her-private/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/peter-carey-4293_life_about-her-husband-i-did-actually-enquire_2635232.png) > [So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/so-in-the-first-draft-i-m-inventing-people-and-place-with-a-broad/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Bigger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bigger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/peter-carey-4293_bigger_so-in-the-first-draft-i-m-inventing-peop_742833.png) > [I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-was-very-anxious-when-i-was-writing-oscar-and-lucinda-i-would-take/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Anxious](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxious/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/peter-carey-4293_anxious_i-was-very-anxious-when-i-was-writing-os_762803.jpg) > [I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-did-not-know-that-history-is-like-a-blood-stain-that-keeps-on/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Blood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/peter-carey-4293_blood_i-did-not-know-that-history-is-like-a-bl_164279.jpg) > [I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-went-to-work-in-1962-and-by-64-i-was-writing-all-the-time-every/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/peter-carey-4293_book_i-went-to-work-in-1962-and-by-64-i-was-w_1630970.png) > [I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-woke-up-in-australia-almost-every-day-for-the-first-47-years-of-my/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Australia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/peter-carey-4293_australia_i-woke-up-in-australia-almost-every-day_537085.png) > [Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/writers-are-always-envious-mean-minded-filled-with-rage-and-envyat/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Cheer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cheer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/peter-carey-4293_cheer_writers-are-always-envious-mean-minded-f_2217014.jpg) > [I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-used-to-say-when-i-was-younger-i-m-exhausted-writers-can-only-write/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39b/peter-carey-4293_day_i-used-to-say-when-i-was-younger-i-m-exh_2098517.png) > [It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/it-s-true-one-of-the-things-that-i-ve-always-thought-about-american/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [American](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/peter-carey-4293_american_it-s-true-one-of-the-things-that-i-ve-al_2107317.png) > [“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/years-later-when-she-was-being-eccentric-had-shed-her-corset-and-let/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Corset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corset/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/peter-carey-4293_corset_years-later-when-she-was-being-eccentric_681374.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-don-t-separate-my-books-into-historical-novels-and-the-rest-to-me/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/peter-carey-4293_book_i-don-t-separate-my-books-into-historica_2429173.png) > [“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/remember-this-is-the-country-of-the-duck-billed-platypus-when-you-are/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Australia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/peter-carey-4293_australia_remember-this-is-the-country-of-the-duck_100651.png) > [And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/and-it-s-always-possible-that-you-will-not-get-a-nice-review-so-and/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f46/peter-carey-4293_always_and-it-s-always-possible-that-you-will-n_2354762.png) > [I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-had-known-loneliness-before-and-emptiness-upon-the-moor-but-i-had/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Emptiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emptiness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/peter-carey-4293_emptiness_i-had-known-loneliness-before-and-emptin_117023.png) > [I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-like-how-they-are-i-think-they-re-great-and-their-communities-are/) [Peter Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/) [Communities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communities/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/peter-carey-4293_communities_i-like-how-they-are-i-think-they-re-grea_2136476.png) ## Peter Carey by topic [Writing (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/peter-carey/) [Writer (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/peter-carey/) [Books (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/peter-carey/) [People (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/peter-carey/) [Life (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/peter-carey/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-carey/#itemlist", "name": "Peter Carey Quotes", "numberOfItems": 33, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Carey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shout-about-other-people-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/peter-carey-4293_life_i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shou_3015763.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/peter-carey-4293_life_i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shou_3015763.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/peter-carey-4293_life_i-don-t-think-you-have-the-right-to-shou_3015763.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.” — Peter Carey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Carey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and-smooth-and-free-from-nasty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/peter-carey-4293_smooth_she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and_2542256.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/peter-carey-4293_smooth_she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and_2542256.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/peter-carey-4293_smooth_she-felt-his-personality-to-be-round-and_2542256.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes.” — Peter Carey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's not like I've got 100 ideas. 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