"I never base characters on real people. There……" — Peter Carey
"I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
Peter Carey has 34 quotes on this site.
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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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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to…
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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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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan…
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and…
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
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