Australian - Novelist | May 7, 1943 -
The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.
Peter Carey
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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
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Culture is the way for a country to know itself.
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I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.
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The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!
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My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
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When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.
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