Peter Carey

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

Peter Carey
famous
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Peter Carey
morning
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Peter Carey
good , writing , course
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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Peter Carey
nostalgia , something , think
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I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Peter Carey
never , base , characters
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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Peter Carey
least , writers , always
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I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Peter Carey
interested , where
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Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

Peter Carey
australia , cannot , see
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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.'

Peter Carey
young , easily , upset
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Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Peter Carey
culture , way , country
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

Peter Carey
worst , person , earth
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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.

Peter Carey
father , left , school
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At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

Peter Carey
fanatical , being
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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

Peter Carey
interest , generally , america
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When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.

Peter Carey
live , new , mean