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Peter Carey Quotes

Australian - Novelist | May 7, 1943 -

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

Famous Village Fame Being Famous Any

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

Past Pain Think Nostalgia Something

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

People Know Never Real Real People

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Friends Always Little Been Very

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.

Time Day Window World Think Look

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.

Society Thought American You True

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Anxiety Worry Always Fiction Full

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

Past Me Curiosity Rest Out Kinds

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Where Going Come Interested

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.

You Bad Back Nice Way Possible

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

World Lens Australia Way See Cannot

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

Life Day New York City My Life New

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