"And it's always possible that you will not……" — Peter Carey
"And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
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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…
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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating…
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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…
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Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up…
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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…
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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 have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally…
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