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Book Quotes by Peter Carey
- 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.…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
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