Peter Carey Thinking Quotations

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

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.

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

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 over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.