Quotes by Peter Carey

Peter Carey

(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

Annoyed

Hurt

Perfect

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Crafts

Hero

Stories

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.

Nice

Reviews

Way

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.

Book

Morning

Writing

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

Being Famous

Fame

Village

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

Actors

Glasses

Royal

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

Talent

Teach

Writing

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

Blood

Matter

Wall

I don’t need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I’ll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

Boots

Home

Needs

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.

Book

Historical Novels

Past

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Australia

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Buttons

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Cheer

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Cliffs

Close Friends

Crafts

Done

Earth

Eye

Fame

Father

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Fiction

Firsts

Giving

Glasses

Hell

Here And There

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Quotes by Peter Carey

Peter Carey

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

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.

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.

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 did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

I don’t need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I’ll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

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.

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