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Peter Carey has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
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Swimming always cleans your soul
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I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many…
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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a…
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because…
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Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.
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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a…
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three…
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
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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…
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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
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You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.
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Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book…
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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
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…
— Megan Abbott
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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human…
— Ted Dekker
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories…
— Ambrose Bierce
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