Australian-literature Quote by Peter Carey

“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be…

— 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…

— Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

— Peter Carey

“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to…

— Peter Carey

Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

— Peter Carey

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…

— Peter Carey

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known…

— Peter Carey

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners…

— Peter Carey

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…

— Peter Carey

“Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.”

— Peter Carey

“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.”

— Peter Carey