Peter Carey Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Peter Carey quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 81 year old American novelist born on Feb 7, 1943.
“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.”
“I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.”
“I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.”
“I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.”
“I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.”
“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 that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.”
“Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.”
“Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.”
“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 window.”
“It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.”
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